Phil,
If you have not done so already, crank up K3 Utility and do the Transmit
Gain calibration.
If that does not fix the problem, then contact Elecraft support.
73,
Don W3FPR
On 11/29/2017 9:40 AM, Phil Zminda wrote:
My K3 -100 S/N 4385 has developed an intermittent transmit problem on CW. I
operate very little SSB so can’t say if it happens on SSB. It seems that the
transmit power as seen on the meter display drops to 0 on a character and then
goes up to 100, even when running at 40 watts driving my amplifier, an ALS-600,
modified with QSK. At first I blamed the amp and did check it out thoroughly,
but see the problem even without it. I have checked all my coax connections,
the amp keying keying connection, re-seated the power cable, tried both full
and semi-qsk and both internal and external Winkeyer keying. I’ve seen this
both with my antenna and with a dummy load. It doesn’t seem to matter which
band I’m on. The problem seems to happen when the rig is first turned on and
then may go away. I saw the problem when operating last night and when I tested
the rig this morning on a dummy load it, re-occurred for a short while, then
went away. A couple of weeks ago ran SS CW with the K3 running QRP and didn’t
notice the problem.
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