Been assembling my K3 kit and, until today, it has been going beautifully.
Got it to the point where it was a K3/10 a couple of nights ago and got to play
with it, then Saturday I made it in to a K3/100 fired it up and and had a ball
learning some of the great features and playing in the 10M Test.
Today I decided to install the KRX3.
Everything seemed to go well until I got to figuring out what to do about
antenna input. I had already installed the RF In jack and had the wire in the
chassis but after some research I decided that with my two antennas - a 102'
doublet and an R7 that I would rather have the scheme that allows me to connect
to the ATU and use the "other" antenna as the antenna for the Sub receiver.
So, I ran the cable from the KAT3 board and taped up and secured the RX Antenna
cable.
I buttoned it up and went through the set up procedures.
At that point I had something weird going on with the Main receiver. Every few
seconds it seemed like there were static crashes that kicked up the AGC and
sent the S meter to max for milliseconds. I don't know if that was related but
after I powered it down a couple of times to scratch my head it seemed to be
normal. But, the Sub hears nothing but white noise. Not the hiss of a dead
receiver but it sounds like it is listening to a dead band. No amount of
switching antennas or even disconnecting the antennas makes any difference in
the background noise. Even if I put both of them on strong signal the Sub
hears nothing but noise.
I have done all the configuration I can find in the manual a couple of times
but still have a dead parrot! (pardon the Monty Python reference but at this
point I am trying to keep my sense of humor).
I've re-calibrated the Synthesizer, rechecked the filter set ups and set the
KRX3 to ANT=ATU.
Before I take the covers off and recheck my install is their anything I should
check from the outside?
In the meantime I will enjoy the radio as is and continue exploring it's
amazing features tonight, not up to messing with it anymore today!
Rick
K6LE
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