[Elecraft] usb to serial adapter k3 problem

[Ingo Meyer, DK3RED]

Hello Barry,

> Very strange problem I am having between the K3 and the computer for rig
> control using a usb to serial adapter (prolific chip set).  Sometime it
> works just fine and other times it goes funky, looses rig control or cw
> keying or keying the tx with no power output. When I reboot it sometime
> works fine and not other times.
  	
Make sure that you have no RF in the shack. If RF is present, it can enter direct in the 
K3 or affect the adapter and create problems, which you have described. So keep the RF of 
the K3 and the adapter with torroids on the control cable.
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