A few weeks ago, I turned on my K3 and all looked normal except that I could not hear any signals or band noise on 160M. I recycled the power switch and heard what sounded like an AM broadcast station, but the tuning knob had no effect. I could not tune anything. (That was weird!!) Another power switch re cycle and all worked normally. Last night, it happened again. Same scenario. This time I had to power down and up about 15 times. Finally, I heard a signal which sounded like an AM program, but it could not be tuned. The next power on attempt provided proper operation. When the K3 was not hearing, it also would not transmit. The keying LED lit, but no power output was seen. K3 is #1504 and it has new synthesizers (2) in it. I also recently replaced the connector pins to the 100 watt amp, but I think that the first episode happened before I had the rig apart to fix the pins. It almost sounds like the LO is dead when first turned on. There were no error messages, and all looks OK, except that no signals are heard. I am going to check a bit deeper. First thing is to look for a proper LO signal to the receiver. (TMP connectors etc) Any ideas from the gurus?
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