I had this problem occur with my Omni VI back in the 90's. When I would walk in the room and touch the VFO the rig would shut down. A friend across town had the same problem with his Omni VI. It took us a while to figure out it was static electricity.
Ten-Tec's fix was to send out a short piece of braid with a solder lug on each end. One end went around the encoder shaft, the other end was attached to the rig chasis. That solved the problem. Someone said "Static electricity is YOUR problem, not the K3's." I have to disagree. The K3 shouldn't be susceptible to static electricity. 73, Alan N5NA Paul Christensen wrote: > Steve, > > I recall a VFO static problem with one of the Ten Tec models. My memory has > faded, but I thought part of their solution used a series of highly > conductive felt washers on the encoder shaft. Anyway, it would be > interesting to see if Ten Tec's encoder kit for that problem could be > adapted to the K3 -- as long as it does not otherwise affect the spin of the > VFO knob. > > Paul, W9AC > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > 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:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
