Re: [Elecraft] Mysterious intermittent failure possibly related to power supply?

2016-09-04 Thread Gary Smith
Is it possible that you use the auto-tuner at home, some gremlin at FD pushed the ATU and put it into Bypass or adjusted it for that FD antenna and it no longer plays nice with your antenna at home, with the K3 folding back with things not copaesthetic as they were when you let your baby into

Re: [Elecraft] Mysterious intermittent failure possibly related to power supply?

2016-09-04 Thread Bill Frantz
Sometimes power supply problems become very obvious if you look at the power supply output with an oscilloscope. 73 Bill AE6JV --- Bill Frantz| If you want total security, go to prison. There you're 408-356-8506

Re: [Elecraft] Mysterious intermittent failure possibly related to power supply?

2016-09-04 Thread Rose
o:kengk...@gmail.com] > Sent: Sunday, September 4, 2016 8:42 AM > To: George Thornton <gthorn...@thorntonmostullaw.com>; > elecraft@mailman.qth.net > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Mysterious intermittent failure possibly related > to power supply? > > > George, > > Does yo

Re: [Elecraft] Mysterious intermittent failure possibly related to power supply?

2016-09-04 Thread Phil Wheeler
To: George Thornton <gthorn...@thorntonmostullaw.com>; elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Mysterious intermittent failure possibly related to power supply? George, Does your K3 have the gold PA pin upgrade? Are the nuts on the filter cap studs that mount the circ

Re: [Elecraft] Mysterious intermittent failure possibly related to power supply?

2016-09-04 Thread George Thornton
ecraft] Mysterious intermittent failure possibly related to power supply? George, Does your K3 have the gold PA pin upgrade? Are the nuts on the filter cap studs that mount the circuit board tight? 73

Re: [Elecraft] Mysterious intermittent failure possibly related to power supply?

2016-09-04 Thread Ken G Kopp
George, Does your K3 have the gold PA pin upgrade? Are the nuts on the filter cap studs that mount the circuit board tight? 73 K0PP __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help:

Re: [Elecraft] Mysterious intermittent failure possibly related to power supply?

2016-09-04 Thread George Thornton
I have been having some mostly transmission issues that I suspect might be related to the power supply. The issue is intermittent failure of the K3 to generate full power on transmit. It operated fine for an hour or two at Field Day but suddenly we were QRP on my k3/100. No error messages,