[Elecraft] Fw: K3 Birdie 28004.560 kHz

[Wes (N7WS)]

Sadly, they probably won't if my recent experience is a guide.

On Feb 15 I wrote to this reflector:

    "In over five years of ownership I've never heard this birdie before so I
    don't know whether it's new or I just missed it before.

    The birdie is S9 on 7.067 MHz and tunes at a 6X rate in the negative
    direction. It's definitely internal.  Anyone else have this?"


Two helpful guys responded and said that they did not hear it.  I opened the 
case and took all of 30 seconds to determine that the issue could be resolved 
(temporarily I'm afraid) by wiggling the coax cables on the frequency reference 
board.  The connectors on this board a badly corroded and moving them apparently 
broke through the corrosion and improved the connection.  The birdie is still 
there but is near the noise level and no longer S9.

I reported my findings, including macro photos of the issue to Elecraft but 
never heard a peep back.  Rather disappointing.

I've posted the photos here: 
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Elecraft_K3/photos/albums/276423773 (The 
cable to J2 is purposely unplugged to show the difference between the cable 
connector and the socket.)

Wes  N7WS



On 2/24/2014 7:19 AM, Toby Pennington wrote:
> Paul,  I can confirm there is a birdie on about that frequency,  but I also 
> hear a lot of signals nearby.
>>
>> IF you don't have some kind of emergency that requires you to be on this 
>> freq.,  I would just work around it for now.  10 meters is a very big band.
>>
>> Elecraft will take care of it in due time.
>>
>> Toby K4NH
>>