[Elecraft] K3 bugs

[Wayne Burdick]

Hi Dave,

I haven't heard of either of these problems before. (In general, we try to eliminate any significant bug right away.) Please forward this to our customer support department, and if they don't have fixes or workarounds, they'll let me know so I can add them to my firmware list.

Your first item makes me wonder if you have VOX turned on and a live mic nearby.

73,
Wayne
N6KR


On Jan 15, 2015, at 3:05 PM, dave <ho13dave at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> 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
> ab9ca/4
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