[Elecraft] K3 birdies

[Wes Stewart]

Because you can or cannot reproduce birdies in your particular K3 means only that your K3 is different from every other K3.

Frankly, considering the construction, the almost total lack of shielding and the the amount of digital cra---stuff---in the K3 it is remarkable that there aren't more birdies.

Most of the ones that I have (that are the same as some listed earlier) are easily identified as birdies because they either are "fast tuning" or tune in the reverse direction (or both).

They are definitely "real" and are generated inside the box.  

Wes  N7WS

--- On Sun, 4/25/10, lstavenhagen <lstavenhagen at hotmail.com> wrote:

> From: lstavenhagen <lstavenhagen at hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 birdies
> To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Sunday, April 25, 2010, 8:37 AM
> 
> I can't reproduce any of these either, except one or two on
> 6 meters in
> between the freqs. listed. (52.827 and one other one I
> didn't record).
> 
> Please don't be offended at my suggesting this, but are
> ya'll sure these are
> really birdies and not external interference from other
> devices like
> computers and etc.? My laptop injects all kinds of garbage,
> some of which
> masquerade as birdies really well......
> There's also the caution in the builder's manual about
> making sure the
> various panels are electrically connecting properly
> otherwise birdies can be
> produced.
> 
> 6 meters, in fact, is the only band I've found in-band
> birdies on mine, if I
> recall correctly. But I havn't really extensively listened
> for them on HF,
> so I could still be missing some.
> 
> 73,
> LS
> W5QD