[Elecraft] factory built k3/100/F

[David Gilbert]

Certainly mistakes happen ... I'm just saying that I think it's 
premature to accuse Elecraft of not bothering to check the rig before it 
was shipped.  It could be a board that went bad or a connector that 
became unseated or whatever.

Dave   AB7E



On 4/20/2011 12:32 PM, Wes Stewart wrote:
> Not necessarily.  He said he worked with factory support on the telephone before they said to ship it back.  I've found them to be quite helpful and knowledgeable. Eric asked earlier what kind of microphone he was using. That was my first thought, like no bias on an electret, but if this wasn't already determined by tech support then there should be some corrective action taken.
>
> I recently had a friend come to my shack with a brand new K3 that didn't transmit at all, although it received perfectly. He thought that perhaps he hadn't loaded the firmware correctly.  I loaded it and we then compared his to mine, parameter by parameter and found nothing wrong, except that it still failed to transmit, of course. It was a weekend so calling for help wasn't an option.
>
> He did later and it was finally determined that the KREF3 board was bad.  Failures happen.
>
> --- On Wed, 4/20/11, David Gilbert<xdavid at cis-broadband.com>  wrote:
>
>> That's kind of a premature question isn't it?
>>
>> Looking forward to your future post identifying what the
>> problem turns
>> out to be ....
>>
>> Dave   AB7E
>>
>>
>>
>> On 4/20/2011 10:03 AM, Scott McDowell wrote:
>>> Hello
>>> Has anyone besides me recieved a factory built
>> k3/100/F that had no, (like in zero),
>>> output in the ssb mode. Or am I just the lucky one. I
>> worked on it for a while with
>>> support on the telephone, then they told me to send it
>> back to the factory.
>>> That sounds like someone at the factory isn't doing
>> the testing that should be done
>>> on the new rigs before they are shipped.
>>> Scott
>>> n5sm