[Elecraft] the hummers

[Mike Fatchett W0MU]

While many of these issues seem to annoy other people, I believe that it 
is excellent feedback for Elecraft.  If a bunch of people started to 
have a humming issue then they would know that something might be 
wrong.  When something runs quiet for 3 months and then starts making 
noise I think it is worth mentioning.

A while back I reported a problem with the K3 that when I plugged in 
headphone to the front jack that the S meter would jump 2 units.  Using 
the back jack did not do this.  The actual cause was that a pin was bent 
while reconnecting the front panel after installing the DSP mod.  
Reporting back to Elecraft what I found might save the next guy a bunch 
of time as they now have it detailed that this issue could be caused by X.

So what if people are obsessive compulsive or Anal....  Using the delete 
key is much easier than stewing about it.


Mike W0MU

J6/W0MU November 21 - December 1 2011 CQ WW DX CW
W0MU-1 CC Cluster w0mu.net


On 9/27/2011 11:12 AM, jim danehy wrote:
> I cut and pasted the fefinition below from Wikipedia. It does a very good
> job of stating what I often read here. I often wonder about folks who want
> to get matching serial numbers for their K Line. Now we  have the hummers.
>
>   Next week I celebrate my 59th year on the air. We had no idea then what the
> gear of today could possibly be. We threw switches to spot and then to
> transmit and then to receive. I wonder what the hummers of today would have
> done 59 years ago  ? ? ? I enjoyed reading about the guy who puts his hand
> on top of his P3 and the base line goes back down. Now that one I can
> appreciate as having some merit.
>
> BRW I turn my fan on the KPA 500 to 2 and leave it there all the time. Do
> any of these folks get bothered by flashing LEDs ? ? ? If they do I have
> missed that one. In the old days we did not have flashing lights. Sometimes
> we did not have meters eithers. Just used a neon bulb on a stick to tune the
> rig. Crude but it worked. It would flash though when you keyed the rig.
> Ummmmmm
>
>
> The term *anal retentive* (also *anally retentive*), commonly abbreviated to
> *anal*,[1]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anal_retentive#cite_note-0>  is used
> conversationally<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversation>  to describe a
> person who pays such attention to detail that the obsession becomes an
> annoyance to others, and can be carried out to the detriment of the
> anal-retentive person. The term derives from
> Freudian<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud>
> psychoanalysis<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychoanalysis>. People who are
> said to be anal retentive usually suffer from obsessive–compulsive
> personality disorder<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obsessive%E2%80%93compulsive_personality_disorder>
> [*citation needed<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed>*]
> .
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