The K3 was a hit a Field day, particularly among the CW guys. The phone guys liked it as well.
A couple of guys here gave me a tip about temporarily changing the KPA3 menu to allow for constant fan operation. Temps were over 100 degrees Saturday afternoon. The rig fared better than most of the ops, it seems. I noticed when I set the K3 back up in the shack that the PWR was set to 8W. The last time I checked it was at 100W. It is easy to inadvertently change settings on those multi function buttons. The only issue of note that presented itself was the low audio output of both the headphone and speaker jacks. We tried several different speakers and I confirmed that the SPKRS menu was at 1 and that the AF GAIN was HI. At home this hasn't been an issue as my shack is pretty quiet and I use a pair of Bose amplified computer speakers. With the high level of ambient noise at the FD site, I found myself turning the AF to maximum or near maximum with either the external speaker and the BM10 headset I was using. Engaging the DSP attenuated the audio so much, it wasn't useable at anything above the F*-1 settings. I arrived at a solution by plugging the BM-10 headset into the speaker jack on the rear panel. This resulted in sufficient audio drive and I was able to use the headset at about 50% gain. I have seen mention of significant audio attenuation with DSP engaged and loss of speaker/headphone output. Is the low audio output perhaps a symptom of the same issue? Brad AA5CH ______________________________________________________________ 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
