Thanks Brian. I worked with Gary at Elecraft support who was a
big help in shooting the problem. Your message was also an
important clue, and maybe knowing about my problem will help you
with yours.
I ended up taking out the 2M board and the ATU board and the KX3
worked. I added in the ATU bo
Hi Bill,
I too suffered from issues as you are now with my KX3. Into a dummy load I
was getting high SWR numbers. I have been so busy at work that I haven't
had the time to find the fault, but what does seem to work for me is not to
tighten the case bolts too tightly. Looser is better, but not
Thanks for reminding me to look at dumb things.
Yes, the BNC was pugged into the tuner board. Note that the
radio has been working well for a while. I ran FT8 in New
Hampshire using it in April/May. The most recent venture into
the inside was to pull the batteries to recover from a hung
firmw
Probably a dumb question, but did you unplug the jumper from the BNC connector
to the main board and plug it into the tuner board?
Grant NQ5T
K3 #2091, KX3 #8342
> On Jun 18, 2018, at 8:04 PM, Bill Frantz wrote:
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> AE6JV
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I have a problem with the ATU board for my KX3. With the board
installed in the radio, I get high SWRs (20M settles into 25:1
or so) into a dummy load. When I removed the board and disable
it in the menu, I get good SWRs on the dummy load. These high
SWRs occure when the ATU is disabled in the
By paying careful attention to the manuals I have been able to level all
my problems save one. With my non-resonant antenna attached, if I press
the ATU TUNE pushbutton I get ERR TXO in the VFO B window and d=000 in
the VFO A window. If I press the XMIT button the TX indicator comes on
but ther
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