[Elecraft] Field Day Guide to K3 and P3 by K2QY--RECAP

[Bill Frantz]

I have read the manuals for the equipment I have, sometimes 
several times. The last time I had a problem, poor RX 
sensitivity on my K3 I ended up in the trouble shooting section. 
It quickly lead me to the problem: I had switched a separate RX 
antenna on, with nothing connected on the back of the radio. 
Going back to a common TX+RX antenna quickly cured the problem. 
BTW, the leakage was strong enough to copy W1AW code practice in California.

Thanks Ron and the rest of the tech writers for the manuals. 
They are generally very good. Also three cheers for including an 
index. None of the manuals for my other radios have an index and 
become almost useless as a result.

Cheers - Bill, AE6JV

On 6/28/13 at 7:41 PM, ron at cobi.biz (Ron D'Eau Claire) wrote:

>I write some of Elecraft's manuals, and customer support is forever noting
>that a customer called about "this" (covered on page 4) and "that" (on pages
>9 and 11) and the "other thing" (page 15).

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