[Elecraft] K3 bad TX

[Toni Lindén]

I was using SO2R with pair of K3s' and had similar reports with both
radios, so I guess it's not the amp issue. The bands where I got
reports were 20M and 15M (on 10M were no propagation and maybe 40M and
80M were too noisy to notice the 2nd sigs).

All antennas are OK and no difference was noted with antennas.

73 de Toni, OH2UA


>Tke the amp out of the equation and see if you still have the issue. Try a
>different antenna and check the SWR. I would suspect one of those to be the
>issue. At least it will eliminate some variables.
>
>Dan AB3EN
>

Toni Lindén wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I was trying K3 for first time in SAC contest a couple of weeks ago.
>
> During the contest I got multiple reports that besides of my run
> frequency, I also had other reasonable strong signals "around the
> band".
>
> It cleared out that I had at least one other signal about 7kHz away
> from my actual freq. It was quite strong, maybe 40dBs down from my
> running freq.
>
> Have anyone else had similar problems and do you have any suggestion
> how to fix this?
>
> I was using only about 60 to 70 watts drive for the amp and amp was
> not pushed over. The same appears on both, CW and SSB. Radio has the
> most resent FWs available via K3 utility SW.
>
> I'm planning to take K3 with me to CU2 for CQWW, but after getting
> such a bad reports about "my 2nd pileup" on the same band, I'm not
> sure if I'm willing to make such an interference to others on CQWW...
>
> So if anyone has any advice, I'm more than pleased to hear!
>
>
> 73 de Toni, OH2UA