[Elecraft] K3 double beep when not connected

Stewart Baker stewart at baker.nildram.co.uk
Sat Jul 11 04:28:34 EDT 2009


My late parents spent an entire week looking for a trapped bird in their house.
A neighbour found the smoke alarm birdie :-)

73
Stewart G3RXQ
>
> 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.
>
> -----
> Julian, G4ILO. K2 #392  K3 #222.
> * G4ILO's Shack - http://www.g4ilo.com
> * KComm - http://www.g4ilo.com/kcomm.html
> * KTune - http://www.g4ilo.com/ktune.html




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