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

[Fred Jensen]

Well, if the bursts or spaces were primes, you may have found ET's 
smartphone.  I'd sure like to know the outcome once you discover that it 
isn't ET.

73,

Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the Cal QSO Party 1-2 Oct 2016
- www.cqp.org

On 12/30/2015 12:39 PM, Dauer, Edward wrote:
> 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