[Elecraft] K3 bugs

[dave]

Recently purchased a K3 kit. Have noted a couple of bugs. Wonder if 
anyone else has seen these:

1) After I put the kit together, while doing the testing, I noted that 
if I cycled through the modes via the left side of the mode button 
(mode dn), every time it went into AM mode it keyed the TX for a 
second or maybe two. Did not do this when pressing the right side of 
the mode button (mode up) and going into AM. This was not simply 
lighting the TX light. The external power meter confirmed that RF was 
being generated. All other changes of mode appeared to be fine.

2) Just now turned the K3 on. Switched to 80m. Mode was CW before and 
after the change of bands. After a few seconds I noted there was no 
audio coming from the speaker. Switched to 60m (USB), audio. Switched 
to 40m (CW), audio. Switched back to 80, no audio. Cycled through the 
modes. Audio was heard on LSB, AM, Data, and suddenly audio was heard 
on 80m CW. And . . . while cycling through the modes I noted that the 
TX was no longer keyed when switching to AM via the mode dn button.

Are these bugs related? Has anyone else seen either of these?

I'd really like to see Elecraft spend the necessary effort to 
thoroughly debug the K3 before spending much effort adding features 
that only a handful of ops will ever use.


73 de dave
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