[Elecraft] KX3 guestion

[Bob Stephens]

 The noise sounds like scratching.  As if there was something rubbing on the VFO knob.  Put the radio on a dummy load, tune to 10M, make sure menu item VFO NR is off, and then tune the dial with the audio level up.   On the couple of bands where I have heard the noise, i.e. 10M, I turned on VFO NR and its not a problem anymore.  

Bob AF9W



On Dec 18, 2012, at 11:46 AM, Phil Hystad wrote:

> OK, I probably wouldn't notice it then unless I was on 10 meters where it is very quiet usually.
> 
> Maybe I will look for it this afternoon -- is it just white noise when you turn the VFO ??
> 
> phil
> 
> On Dec 18, 2012, at 10:36 AM, Bob Stephens <af9w at bobandgloria.com> wrote:
> 
>> Probably for the same reason I don't here it.  At my location the atmospheric noise exceeds the VFO noise.  When I go out to the state park near here then I can hear it a little but with VFO NR on it doesn't bother me.    My IC706MkIIG and FT-817 don't have any tuning noise but they can't pull the weak ones out of the noise like the KX3 can. 
>> 
>> 73 de AF9W
>> Bob Stephens
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Dec 18, 2012, at 11:31 AM, Phil Hystad wrote:
>> 
>>> How come I don't hear this VFO tuning noise on my KX3?  As far as I know, I do not have
>>> this problem.
>>> 
>>> phil, K7PEH
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Dec 18, 2012, at 10:12 AM, Adi Andrei <e.adi.andrei at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Better hold off until the VFO tunning noise is fixed, or you will be quite surprized and once you hear it you won't be able to ignore it.
>>>> 
>>>> Adi
>>>> M0THX
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Dec 17, 2012, at 7:47 AM, WN8HGZ wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Wayne and Elecraft team . I have been holding off purchasing kx3
>>>>> until  most of the bugs both software and hardware have been worked
>>>>> out. Could some from elecraft give a written summary of what's been
>>>>> fixed and maybe what might be left. There has been so much traffic
>>>>> on this problem and that problem not sure what's fact and fiction.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thank you Brian Mcinerney WB8IDY
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Sent from my iPad Brian Mc Inerney
>>>>> 
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