[Elecraft] K3 VFO A tension

[Gary Smith]

Doug,

I'm away from the house & using my laptop which tends to have a mind 
of its own when I type & sometimes where it types is in the middle of 
something I wrote earlier (it jumps around if I rest my wrist on the 
front when I type). It's a really cheap acer. I just re-read what I'd 
replied with and man was it garbled...

Anyway, I never thought it might be the knob as the shaft looked like 
it was staying in the same place when rotated but... I really didn't 
examine it critically. I'll switch the knob to VFO B & see what 
happens. I have a brand new VFO knob for my Corsair II which is still 
in the TenTec wrapping from 15 years ago, I'll put that on VFO A & 
see how it does.

You might have the answer there. Thanks for the idea.

Gary, KA1J


> I had a similar problem with my first K3 (sn#295).  It was actually a
> defective KNOB!  I took the VFO B knob and put it on the VFO A shaft
> to see if it was the knob or a cock-eyed encoder shaft.  It was the
> knob!  I call to support brought some raised eyebrows ("never heard of
> that before") but also a new knob.
> 
> Are you sure it's NOT the knob?
> 
> de Doug KR2Q
> PS for the record, the big knob on my "other" K3 works fine.
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