[Elecraft] KX-3 4092

[Wayne Burdick]

Paul,

This is very unusual. Please contact customer support so they can send you a replacement.

Meanwhile, have you tried tapping ATU TUNE a second time right after the first attempt? If you do this within five seconds, the ATU will try a wider range of LC values.

Wayne
N6KR

On May 12, 2014, at 9:35 PM, paulb <xtr348165 at xtra.co.nz> wrote:

> 
> Hi Folks
> 
> Owned a KX3 for a while but never used portable until recently.
> Antenna is a 40m dipole, coax fed. Nothing exotic.
> 
> For some reason the KX3 tuner has a problem getting a good match.
> It settles on something like 1.8/1 which is not big deal except other
> transcievers show near perfect match around 7.1megs.
> 
> Latest firmware ver loaded.
> 
> Now here is the odd part; above 7260 fast perfect match.
> Move down 1khz to 7259 and the tuner won't match correctly.
> 
> On a 50 ohm dummy load tuner is faultless.
> 
> Some thing I noted is the VSWR reading on the KX3 seems out of line with
> other equipment. 
> 
> Not sure what the story is ?
> 
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> in the meantime the KX3 is back on the shelf, 
> my K2 built several years ago is doing splendid service 
> 
> cheers
> 
> Paul b 
> zl1ajy
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