[Elecraft] freq drift/front end KX3

[Ron D'Eau Claire]

The spec on the nut has been changed. It should be tight against the encoder
body. 

I'm not sure why it has changed twice, but I can say that having it tight
against the encoder body works FB and the current manual errata calls for it
to be set that way. 

73, 

Ron AC7AC

-----Original Message-----


Is yours a factory build or kit?  Mine's a kit and I while building it, the
full-turn spacing for the inside nut for the VFO encoder was a bit far for
mine to make contact.  I noticed that while adjusting the VFO, that it would
sometime wander even though I hadn't touched it.  In my case, I think there
was just a bit of play in the VFO and once I had it properly seated and
making clean contact the drifting disappeared.

Also does it do it after the radio has been on for a while, or only after
freshly powered up?  Even with a bit of play in my VFO, the wandering would
disappear after a few minutes of being powered on. (note my KX3 no longer
exhibits this behavior at all once I got my VFO issues sorted out).


./ben
W6MCM

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 6:58 PM, Robert Galambos <va3bxg at gmail.com> wrote:

> 1) i was trying to set up a dipole antenna to get my first QSO. i was 
> on
> 40 m and as i was tinkering with my head ]phones  i noticed that i had 
> a 0.1 drift on the LCD readout VFOA. the readout had dropped by that 
> much.. in fact it did more then once. i would tune to a freq, and then 
> listen (not touching anything) and without any other change it would 
> drift by itself???
>
> 2) another item. i removed all wires etc from the radio, and found 
> that there was a lot of noise. even my buddy, who has been a ham for 
> many years wondered what was happening. and what is happening.
>
> thought i would ask the gurus here if they know what is going on?
>
>
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