Ahhh ... I didn't think of that. Thanks for the clarification!
73, Dave AB7E [email protected] wrote: > I think he means the K3 amp issue - the amp in the K3. > > > <quote author='David Gilbert'> > > I don't understand ... if you used two different K3's and the same amp > (I assume for both K3's), how does that remove the amp as a possible > cause of the spurs? I don't think you narrow anything down to the K3 > until you check the results into a dummy load. If you have two K3's, > transmit into a dummy load with one while you check for spurs with the > other. > > 73, > Dave AB7E > > > > Toni Lindén wrote: > >> I was using SO2R with pair of K3s' and had similar reports with both >> radios, so I guess it's not the amp issue. The bands where I got >> reports were 20M and 15M (on 10M were no propagation and maybe 40M and >> 80M were too noisy to notice the 2nd sigs). >> >> All antennas are OK and no difference was noted with antennas. >> >> 73 de Toni, OH2UA >> >> >> >> >>> Tke the amp out of the equation and see if you still have the issue. Try >>> a >>> different antenna and check the SWR. I would suspect one of those to be >>> the >>> issue. At least it will eliminate some variables. >>> >>> Dan AB3EN >>> >>> >>> >> Toni Lindén wrote: >> >> >>> Hi! >>> >>> I was trying K3 for first time in SAC contest a couple of weeks ago. >>> >>> During the contest I got multiple reports that besides of my run >>> frequency, I also had other reasonable strong signals "around the >>> band". >>> >>> It cleared out that I had at least one other signal about 7kHz away >>> from my actual freq. It was quite strong, maybe 40dBs down from my >>> running freq. >>> >>> Have anyone else had similar problems and do you have any suggestion >>> how to fix this? >>> >>> I was using only about 60 to 70 watts drive for the amp and amp was >>> not pushed over. The same appears on both, CW and SSB. Radio has the >>> most resent FWs available via K3 utility SW. >>> >>> I'm planning to take K3 with me to CU2 for CQWW, but after getting >>> such a bad reports about "my 2nd pileup" on the same band, I'm not >>> sure if I'm willing to make such an interference to others on CQWW... >>> >>> So if anyone has any advice, I'm more than pleased to hear! >>> >>> >>> 73 de Toni, OH2UA >>> >>> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> 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 >> >> >> > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 > > </quote> > Quoted from: http://n2.nabble.com/K3-bad-TX-tp3763903p3764377.html > > ______________________________________________________________ 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
