[Elecraft] K3 on 40 meters

[Bill Frantz]

I'm part of that club. I saved considerable time by going to the 
trouble shooting section of the manual. On page 65 I found this 
lovely section:

"No received signal: Check (1) receiver being squelched (if 
RF/SQL controls are assigned to squelch via CONFIG:SQ MAIN or SQ 
SUB, rotate squelch controls fully counter-clockwise); (2) RF 
GAIN too low (set RF gain controls fully clockwise); (3) 
bandwidth too narrow (set WIDTH or tap XFIL, and also verify 
filter configuration settings); (4) switching to an open receive 
antenna on the KXV3 (RX ANT IN); (5) switching the KAT3 to an 
open antenna jack; (6) CONFIG:REF CAL parameter not adjusted 
properly; (7) CONFIG:KXV3 may be set to TEST, which routes all 
RF through the XVTR IN/OUT jacks."

73 Bill AE6JV

On 10/20/14 at 5:18 PM, k2av.guy at gmail.com (Guy Olinger K2AV) wrote:

>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.

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