My K3, S/N 642, has been slowly developing "front panel dementia" [as am
I as I accumulate birthdays]. A number of the switches are becoming
intermittent, and often, the first push of one causes a totally
unrelated action [e.g. tapping BAND UP turns on NR]. It doesn't happen
with all of them and it seems like the ones I use the most are pretty
stable. I find that a really positive actuation, as in hard, often
makes it work correctly.
My K3 is getting somewhat long in the tooth as the S/N would indicate,
but I was under the impression that the front panel switches were rated
at multi-millions of operations, and I'm sure I haven't come remotely
close to exceeding that. My truck is 13 years old and is developing
similar symptoms [Tach says the engine is doing 6,000 RPM sitting in the
driveway :-)]
Curious:
1. Anybody else experience this?
2. If so, what did you do?
3. How do I tell if it's time to send it into the Big E?
73,
Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the Cal QSO Party 1-2 Oct 2016
- www.cqp.org
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