[Elecraft] [K3] Broadcast interference on 160M

[Wayne Burdick]

Hi Bill,

I haven't heard anything like this myself. If you find a repeatable way to make it occur, please pass it along and I'll try to duplicate it.

Meanwhile, the workaround sounds like switching bands, then back to 160 m.

73,
Wayne
N6KR


On Dec 1, 2015, at 2:51 PM, Bill Frantz <frantz at pwpconsult.com> wrote:

> I switched to 160 meters with the band switch and the P3 showed the band filled with what looked like AM signals. I tuned one of them at 1.810 MHz and listened. The station identified as KGO, about 20 miles away with three beautiful towers at the edge of San Francisco bay. (Serious antenna envy here.)
> 
> I then tuned to 810 KHz and indeed KGO was there as expected. I then used a band memory to switch back to the CW portion of 160 meters and the interference was gone.
> 
> I think I have seen AM broadcast interference on 160M before, but I may be mistaken. Any ideas about what is going on?
> 
> I have new synths and a new KBPF3A with the MF/LF mods. K3 is 6299. I did tune down below the BC band on November 14 when there were a lot of stations active down there, but the radio came up in the ham band when I switched with the band switch.
> 
> 73 Bill AE6JV