[Elecraft] K3 double beep when not connected

[David Ferrington, M0XDF]

Yes, tell me about it, I have one of those S/Ds too (I actually have  
two and they are linked)!

I had the double-beep 3 times in succession this morning, over a  
period of about 5 mins, but not regular, so still couldn't figure out  
where it's coming from.

It's not the phone, not the 4 Puxing Hand-helds (which are chared) or  
the VX-7rs, which have never done that and are on chare too.

That leaves a Compaq which is on charge and hasn't done that before, a  
eeePC, likewise on charge, but in standby mode, don't think it's that.

Lastly it leaves the K3.

I'm going to spread some of this kit around the house in an attempt to  
find it.

-- 
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from
him. -Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642)

On 10 Jul 2009, at 22:00, Julian, G4ILO wrote:

>
>
> Don Wilhelm-4 wrote:
>>
>> Roy,
>>
>> That is a real mystery, the K3 has no internal battery, so if there  
>> is
>> no power connected, how can it make any sound?  The only battery  
>> that is
>> in the K3 is the battery for the real time clock, but even that  
>> requires
>> power to the audio amplifiers for any output it might generate to  
>> reach
>> the speaker (or headphones).
>>
>> Since you have nothing connected to your K3, move it to another  
>> room -
>> does the double beep continue to come from the K3 or did the sound  
>> stay
>> in the hamshack?
>>
>> You could have a serious problem if that is the sound of the Elecraft
>> Mojo leaking out :-) .
>>
>> 73,
>> Don W3FPR
>>
>>
>
> The only beep-beeping I've come across has been laptop PCs left on  
> standby
> warning that their batteries are about to run down. I think some  
> mobile
> phones and VHF hand-helds might do that too.
>
> It's very hard to determine where an infrequent beeping sound is  
> coming
> from. My wife and I were once woken in the night and spent about an  
> hour
> searching for the source of a regular but infrequent beep, which  
> turned out
> to be the (mains powered) smoke alarm telling us that the backup  
> batteries
> (which I didn't even know existed, and which were 6 years old) were  
> about to
> die.
>
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