[Elecraft] K3 Receive Sensitivity Consistency

[Dale Boresz]

David,

Check your PRE and ATT setting on 60m compared to your other bands. I 
would guess that you have the ATT engaged on 60m and not on the other bands.

73, Dale
WA8SRA


On 10/28/2012 12:22 PM, David Little wrote:
> When I turned the K3 on this morning, I decided to listen to 60m, to get
> away from the contesting.
>   
> As I went through the bands from the 2 meg frequency I had been monitoring,
> when it got to the 5 MHz band it seemed to be a bit deaf.
>   
> Volume was considerably lower, but signal on the P3 looked consistent with
> the other bands.
>   
> Going into the Menu and bringing the Receive EQ to +16 on all 8 frequencies
> did not restore the volume level.
>   
> Using the Band switch, toggling back down to 75m brought similar results;
> lower receive level.
>   
> However when going back to the original 2 Meg frequency and manually tuning
> up with the VFO, the sensitivity and volume remained consistent all the way
> up to the 5 Meg freq that I was trying to monitor initially.
>   
> After that, going through the spectrum using the Band Select switch yielded
> consistent results.
>   
> When using the VFO, I was looking for a magic relay click, or some crossed
> frequency threshold that triggered a return to sensitivity, but there was no
> degradation as long as I was going up the band with the VFO.
>   
> Serial Number 5063; Anyone else seen this before?
>   
> David
> KD4NUE
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