My K3S is about 3 years old and is S/N 11185. It has operated flawlessly since it got out of the box.
I was using it this weekend in the VHF contest and operated perfectly until Sunday afternoon. I took a break for dinner and came back about two hours later and found that I had no power output. The radio was left on during that time. There was no indication that there was a power surge of any kind and there was no smell of anything electrical. Since I wasn't transmitting during that time, there was no SWR issue. After doing some initial troubleshooting, I found that the rig worked perfectly at low power but when I go above 9 watts (12 watts on HF) I get no output. The display indicates two dashes where the SWR is displayed and the power indicates 0.0 W. When I try to transmit with higher power, the red TX light comes on steady and the K3S also keys my amplifier properly. I've tried it on several bands with the same results. The only other thing of interest is that when I came back to the rig after dinner, the rig tried to transmit in CW while receiving in TX Data. I did not leave it in that configuration. That may indicate that something my have happened with the S/W settings. Any suggestions of where to start looking Thanks Ken W1NG w...@snet.net ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
