[Elecraft] K3 on 40 meters

[Fred Jensen]

Aside from the well known fact that 86.41% of the adult population makes 
up their own statistics, I'm part of Guy's 98.91%.  30m was dead and 
infinite SWR.  Wayne called me, said "Let's start with the easy part" 
... and everyone can finish the story.  I've now done it twice on my K3, 
second time I knew what to check.  I had this same problem on 2m with my 
FT-847 on 2m FM, couldn't raise the local repeater ... 2m coax connected 
to the 6m connector, nothing in the 2m connector.  No one called me from 
Japan. :-((

73,

Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 2015 Cal QSO Party 3-4 Oct 2015
- www.cqp.org

On 10/20/2014 5:18 PM, Guy Olinger K2AV wrote:
> Dear Gene,
>
> :>))
>
> Please note that at last count 98.91% of all K3 owners have pulled that
> wrong antenna per band stunt on themselves and spent at least an hour
> looking elsewhere for the problem. 95% of the 98.91 have done it twice. 90%
> of the 95 have done it three times or more. 50% of the 90 have trouble
> remembering that for more than six months at a stretch and do it again on a
> more or less semi-annual basis.
>
> Those of us who have officially become olde phartes, no longer report such
> events to the statistical data base, and have no intention whatsoever of
> telling anyone how many times we *really* do that to ourselves.
>
> The price for all that wonderful K3 technical flexibility.
>
> In any event, welcome to the Royalle Fraternitie of RX Antennae Selection
> F***-Ups. You have arrived.