[Elecraft] [K1] Internal Noise Bursts every 12 seconds or so

[Dauer, Edward]

I think there was a Sci-Fi movie in the 1950s that started that way . . .
led to a very DX QSO.

Ted, KN1CBR



>Message: 23
>Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 12:15:56 -0500
>From: Bob <WB4SON at gmail.com>
>To: "w3fpr at embarqmail.com" <w3fpr at embarqmail.com>
>Cc: Mike Morrow <kk5f at arrl.net>, Elecraft <Elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
>Subject: Re: [Elecraft] [K1] Internal Noise Bursts every 12 seconds or
>	so
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>Great advice, Don.  I will try that soon.
>
>The noise is raspy alnost static like. Not a ticking like you would expect
>from digital noise.
>
>I have mechanically probed every component lead and cant cause the noise
>that way which I would expect from any intermittant connection. Nor does
>rapping hard on the case cause it.  It simply repeats at its own pattern
>rate: 1/2 sec burst, 1/2 sec pause, 3 sec burst, 8 sec pause,  endlessly
>repeating.
>
>73, Bob, WB4SON