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> On Oct 28, 2018, at 10:21 AM, Dave <[email protected]> wrote: > > Bill, > > Do you know what was fixed? Symptoms appear to be a bad device in PA. > > Dave wo2x > > Sent from my iPad > >> On Oct 28, 2018, at 10:15 AM, Bill Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I did and sent in to factory to fix. >> Bil >> K9YEQ >> >> Bill >> 920-421-1172 >> >> ________________________________ >> From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on >> behalf of Peter Dougherty (W2IRT) <[email protected]> >> Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2018 11:36:40 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [Elecraft] Possible K3s TX failure - distorted audio >> >> Hi all. >> Early into CQWW this weekend I was getting reports of extremely distorted >> audio from my K3s. Being mostly a CW (and 6m FT8) operator I wasn't sure >> what was going on. I figured it was RF, but it was happening at all power >> levels, from QRP to 100W, and QRO with my KPA-1500. Same (bad) audio, just >> stronger/weaker signals. All bands were equally bad. >> >> I ended up going from the radio directly to the tower, physically bypassing >> the amp and tuner, and only running low power, with the same result. It >> sounded more like distorted audio than RF ingress. >> >> Some troubleshooting by Dave, WO2X, who is a Flex owner: He remoted in to >> his Flex a few miles away and noticed my garbled signal was absolutely dirty >> and wide, despite low mic gain and little or no compression. The audio >> sounded clean through the monitor, so it wasn't the audio chain. He's >> speculating I may have a blown FET in the PA stage. >> >> We put in a Flex 6500 temporarily and it seems to be running fine. Wondering >> if anybody here has had experience with this, and if so, what are my next >> steps? >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >> --------------------------------------------- >> 73 and Good DX >> Peter, W2IRT >> >> K3s S/N 10023 >> >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:[email protected] >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> Message delivered to [email protected] >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:[email protected] >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> Message delivered to [email protected] > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
