Just opened the radio and sniffed around and looked at components on ATU board. All appears fine. Many field day goers have been quite impressed with the innards of the K3 and its capabilities. Have probably sold 2 or 3 K3's today, even with the failures.
On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 20:49 -0700, Brett Howard wrote: > Hadn't tried PA bypass yet but just did and it seems to be not working. > When I hit tune with the rig set to 100mW I get a bit of power out but a > radio next to me only sees me as 20 over cranking the power up to 12 > watts in PA Byp and ATU Byp only puts his radio at 40 over and that > should be able to get higher than that at this range. The K3 still > claims 0W out. > > > On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 23:24 -0400, Gary Hvizdak wrote: > > Hi Brett, > > > > Have you tried bypassing the KPA3 by setting the KPA3 menu entry to > > "PA BYP"? After that the next thing to try might be to bypass the KAT3. > > > > 73, > > Gary KI4GGX > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Brett Howard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Saturday 28 June 2008 2317 > > To: Gary Hvizdak > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: RE: [Elecraft] No power out all of the sudden... :( > > > > 100W PA > > Transverter interface > > ATU > > 2.7K filter > > 1.8K filter > > 250Hz filter > > > > > > Although I should mention that I just did a full reset of all settings > > and reloaded the 2.02 firmware and right now I've done only the filter > > setup and have all filters turned on in all modes and have all modes > > (that I'm worried about) transmitting through FL2 (the 2.7K). I've not > > enabled any of the modules that I have in the radio and am still seeing > > this issue. > > > > > > On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 23:11 -0400, Gary Hvizdak wrote: > > > Brett, > > > > > > > > > > > > First question is . what options do you have installed in your K3? > > > > > > > > > > > > 73, > > > Gary KI4GGX > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > > > > > > > > Brett Howard brett at livecomputers.com > > > Sat Jun 28 22:36:50 EDT 2008 > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > > Ok so we're out at field day and all of the sudden I heard a somewhat > > > strong signal and then all the receive has gone to low S Meter numbers > > > yet the radio is not deaf at all. > > > > > > What's worse is that I am getting no RF out. Pressing tune the radio > > > draws about 2.3A and displays -- for the SWR. When tuning I get -- for > > > the SWR as well. In tune mode the power out at the bottom shows 0W. > > > When hitting tune it says 5.0W at the bottom and shows 5W on the bar > > > graph but it ends up doing a full search to try and find a match and > > > never finds anything cause there is no SWR shown. > > > > > > I've done a full parameter reset and have reloaded my parameters from > > > before field day. No such luck. > > > > > > Any help would be GREATLY appreciated! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
