For those of you who plan on taking the K3 to Field Day or to similar
portable station events, I highly recommend that you take advantage of one
of Wayne's latest options in Beta 3.10 - VOX defaults to OFF upon K3 rig
turn-on. That will eliminate the problem we encountered at the Halifax ARC
at FD 2008 where, while one team was putting the CW station HF antenna
together, another team was working on the radio/computer logging end of the
RF transmission path. Someone who was unfamiliar with the K3 innocently
booted up a computer attached to #095 which had just been turned ON with VOX
still on from previous use. The guys at the antenna end were not impressed
when the K3 - with no-one touching it or the paddles - started transmitting
pulses at full power. No-one was hurt and no equipment was damaged and we
did not cook our MFJ antenna analyzer, but the potential was there for sure.
Anyone who has gone through a FD exercise will understand that the normal
operating discipline that we all maintain in our own fixed stations, where
of course none of us would ever allow this to happen (!), sometimes breaks
down.
Thanks, Elecraft, for fixing this safety issue.
73,
Gary, VE1RGB
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