[Elecraft] Any solution to the audio blast issue yet ?

[Bill W5WVO]

You guys must have missed this:

   "This is being addressed in the current pre-beta test version.
   "73, Eric  WA6HHQ"

Hang in there. Until this is fixed for sure, I'm not using headphones at all. 
Not worth the risk.

Bill W5WVO



Frank R. Oppedijk wrote:
> Hi Gary,
>
> I think Enno was making his remarks here on the Elecraft reflector
> because of an earlier remark that *I* made on a Dutch K3 email list,
> and that he was referring to the audio blast that *I* encountered.
>
> I was in a CW QSO on 20 meters at the moment the audio blast
> occurred. I probably had bandwidth set to 400 Hz, using my 400 Hz
> filter, and may very well have had the NR on, probably at setting
> F1-1. NB most probably was off. I don't recall having adjusted any
> controls just before. At the moment the audio blast happened, I was
> in QSO with DP1POL and was sending my report at that very moment.
>
> Although the blast startled me, I did have the wits to continue
> sending my report, before pulling off my headphones and switching the
> rig off and on in order to stop the sound. AF GAIN was set to low.
> This may explain my relatively cool reaction, as I have heard from
> others here on the reflector that had only one thing left in their
> minds when the blast occurred: get them phones off my ears!
>
> Hope this helps a bit.
>
> 73,
>
> Frank PA4N
>
>
> At 21:17 25/09/2009, Gary Hinson wrote:
>>> I wonder what the status of the audio 'artifact' or blast is.
>>
>> Hi Enno
>>
>> FWIW I have been installing and using the latest Betas as they are
>> released.  I use headphones at the rig many hours a day and have yet
>> to experience the blast.  Whatever it is, I'm not triggering it [so
>> far] on K3 #2887.  It's not an "issue" hr.
>>
>> Are you saying *you* have heard the blast?  If so, what were you
>> doing at the time?  What mode, what activity, what controls were you
>> adjusting or had you recently adjusted?  I suspect more clues about
>> what triggers the blast will help trace it.
>>
>> 73,
>> Gary  ZL2iFB
>>
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