[Elecraft] factory built k3/100/F

[Edward R. Cole]

I can understand your disappointment.  Even 100% testing can have 
occurrences of random failure.  Doesn't mean the factory or 
technician screwed up.  I recently bought a custom-made (for me) 
transverter that cost me $600 and less than a week an IC shorted out 
and killed the receiver.  I was able to troubleshoot it and wrote for 
a replacement of the IC.  I got two of them within five days and with 
less than an hours work had it replaced.  The manufacturer was 
clueless to why the component failed.  A certain percentage of 
components do that.  They can test perfectly and then give up and die.

I'm sure the staff at Elecraft will fix your radio and you will have 
back in perfect shape.

In 1969 I bought a brand new Mustang Mach-I.  Drove it from Michigan 
to California to start a new job straight out of college.  A month 
later the 390 V8 threw a rod.  Ford fixed it under warrantee doing a 
complete short block replacement.  The dealership told me the factory 
had installed the wrong connecting rod in that cylinder. Stuff happens.

It was a great car to be driving in 1969 at the age of 25 (to many 
'vetts dismay).  Those were the days my friend!

73, Ed

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Message: 8
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:03:16 -0700 (PDT)
From: Scott McDowell <n5sm at yahoo.com>
Subject: [Elecraft] factory built k3/100/F
To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Message-ID: <726926.37786.qm at web45102.mail.sp1.yahoo.com>
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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




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