[Elecraft] K3 Drift

[Guy Olinger K2AV]

Ed's experience is pretty common. When I was curious about that, I had
a similar experience. Enough to know not to ever worry about it again.
I have the TCXO.  73, Guy.

On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 4:52 PM, KD7PY <emoss98133 at msn.com> wrote:
> I just did a freq. calibration of my K3.
> with the dial set to 9.999.000 in usb for wwv at 10 mhz, that gave me a 1
> khz tone that I sent to the computer using Spectran that will show the freq
> of the audio. I was able to set thr REF CAL in the K3 to be within .03 cycle
> of dead beat. I calibrated my Xtal reference osc dead beat with wwv. and
> then set the K3 to 6 meters , dial set to 49.999.000 to give a 1 khz tone
> and checked the 5 harmonic of the xtal osc. and found that the K3 was only
> off 8.68 cycles.  due to the fact I was using the 5th harmonic of the xtal
> osc there is some small error. I did a freq drift check before doing the
> above and found my K3 had a drift of only 8.5 cycles over a 2 hour warm
> up.....
>
> to me this is darn good...
>
> Ed  KD7PY (ex K7WIA)
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