My two-year old K3/100 developed an intermittent power problem. At first I had
the PA in and out a couple of times thinking it was the reported connector pin
problem. No luck. I noted that pushing on the KANT3 board that is used with
no ATU would fix the problem for a time. Fix meaning it
The owner called Elecraft support.
They told him to tighten up the three screws on the bottom plate having
lock washers.
Voila, it works.
How did they know that? Incredible.
73 de Brian/K3KO
On 5/27/2011 00:05, Brian Alsop wrote:
I'm posting this for KK4AOA. He will be joining the group
I'm posting this for KK4AOA. He will be joining the group later.
He is doing a clean build.
The K3 is a K3-10 so far with an internal antenna tuner and five
filters. No subrx.
Running the utility program transmit power calibration works fine on
160,80 and 60M but fails on 40M.
Over the
Brian,
I am relpying out of stupidity. The K3 Utility tries to set the ATU
to bypass. If it detects the KAT3, but it does not go into bypass, that
would terminate the procedure.
I suggest that he look at the KAT3 situation first. Once that is
resolved, then other factors will either fall
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