I had a similar event last October in the New York QSO Party with my K3, s/n67xx. After the first QSO (from a beautiful overlook in Fort Tryon Park in Manhattan) it simply stopped putting out RF. It went into transmit, just no RF. I tried power cycling, jiggling external connectors, etc. After about 10 minutes, and about one minute before giving up for the contest, while moving things around I unintentionally snapped the front bail, and things snapped back to life.
It has worked fine ever since. 73 - Jim K8MR > On Mar 9, 2017, at 8:54 AM, Dennis <egan.denni...@gmail.com> wrote: > > In the middle of ARRL DX CW, my K3 stopped transmitting. It did not shut > off, it > would go into transmit and there were small flickers in ALC when the meter > was in > that position, but no power out. Pushing the TUNE button resulted in the > display > saying "0 watts". I played with it for several minutes, was unsuccessful in > restoring > any transmit capability, so subbed in the replacement rig and kept going. > > I brought my K3 home, plugged it in, connected a key and a dummy load, and it > transmitted perfectly. No problems. I've used it about 3 hours since, and > there > have been no problems. > > First question, what could have happened to result in the no transmit state? > I will be using my K3 again this weekend in a contest. If the problem > happens again, what possible problems should I be looking for? Loose/ > intermittent cable attached to the synthesizer? > > Dennis W1UE > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
