I did try the "drop" test- hold up the front of the radio a little bit,
and then drop it so that it contacts the table.
Kinda shake things up a bit. No luck. When I also brought it home, I
put it in the case, drove it 72 miles
back to my house, brought it in, and set it up 2 days later. So it was
jostled fairly good. As I say, when I got
it home it worked, and has worked, fine.
Dennis W1UE
On 3/9/2017 9:10 AM, Jim Stahl wrote:
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 <[email protected]> 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
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