[Elecraft] K3: Strange VFO Behavior

[Ed K1EP]

At 1/18/2008 03:57 AM, David Ferrington, M0XDF wrote:
>I may just have come across this, at one point I couldn't get 160m - I power
>cycled and all was ok.
>
>John, if someone does get MBS ('Missing Bands Syndrome'), does a power cycle
>fix it?

I have come across that several times.  You can spin the dial quite a 
bit (not recommended) or just manually enter a frequency in the band 
that is missing.  I use the band up or down button to get to the band 
that is missing and just enter a frequency manually through the front 
panel buttons.


>On 18/1/08 02:49, "John   [K7SVV]" <k7svv at arrl.net> sent:
>
> > Ed,
> >         I just went through this last week.  It is a known 
> problem and is on
> > Wayne's things-to-do list.  What ever you do, don't press the 
> SPLT button to
> > go into split  mode when you have the condition you described 
> because if you
> > do, you will screw up the band sequence when you step through the 
> bands.  At
> > one point I had 3 80m bands and no 60m and 40m when I cycled through the
> > bands.  Until Wayne gets it fixed, be careful to not have 
> different bands in
> > VFO A and B.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Ed K1EP" <k1ep.list at gmail.com>
>To: <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
>Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 5:16 PM
>Subject: [Elecraft] K3: Strange VFO Behavior
>
> >I noticed this behavior this evening and I was wondering if anyone else
> >could duplicate it.
> >
> > I have VFO A on 6M USB and VFO B on 10M USB.   When I turn the VFO B knob,
> > the VFO frequency changes, but the mode changes to LSB.  If I turn VFO A
> > now, the VFO A frequency changes and the mode goes back to USB.  If I do a
> > band down, I don't get 10M on VFO A, instead I still see 6M, plus get a
> > PLL error message flash by.
> >
> > Does anyone else see this?
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