[Elecraft] Field Day

[david Moes]

Congrats on success at field day with the K3.   My K3 ran phone, CW and 
PSK31 for the duration as the GOTA and a great shot of me and the K3 
even made the local paper :)

Dust and junk.     We were fortunate to have low dust this year at FD  
but here is what I do with dust.
I do lots of photography with my DSLR and often in dusty places 
(railfan).   I use a fine  natural bristle brush  in a breezy place to 
clean dust of the lenses and camera body taking care not to brush dirt 
into cracks and slots near knobs and buttons.   a blast of canned air or 
using a vacuum cleaner is fine on outer surfaces.  just be carfull 
around connectors at the back.  airflow from the vacuum cleaner can 
create static.   I fix large laser printers and used a vacuum a million 
times near the electronics without ESD troubles when using it with care.

73 VE3DVY

On 6/25/2012 12:51 PM, Jim Harris wrote:
> Hi,
> Took my K3 to Field Day again this year and ran mostly RTTY.  Made about 130 "Q's" which is about normal for Field Day.  We operated on the dry, dusty and hot plains east of Colorado Springs CO.  Wondering if anyone has a good and thorough cleaning scheme for the K3 and P3?  They picked up a lot of dust and grim and I want to clean them well before installing them back into the shack.
> BTW, add another weird malfunction to those this radio has already experienced.  When first powered up at the Field Day site when RIT was pressed the LCD brightness menu would display.  PF1 is set up for a different function for those thinking I was holding the button too long.  After shutting everything down and restarting it worked fine.  This K3 has had some weird problems in the past with all of them confirmed.
>
> Take pride in the USA. 73
>
>
>
> Jim, W0EM
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