[Elecraft] K3 bugs

[Harry Yingst via Elecraft]

I have not seen the issue hear and I'm running the latest released firmware (and I suspect your was factory loaded with the latest)
Could be a mechanical issue; Something like the wrong length screw causing something to short out?

I would suspect a possible assembly error, but it could be a real issue with the radio.Personally I'd call support and work with them to resolve this issue.

I'm a bit critical of Elecraft; because being the son of a German Engineer and in a technical field I tend to look at things in a very critical light).But even as critical as I am of Elecraft they do make a sound product and they do listen to their customer base.

I would say they do tend to spend a good amount of debugging time.


PS: Being the son of a German Engineer, and being in technical fields my whole career I'm very critical of Elecraft.That being said they so make a sound product, plus they do listen to their customers.

     

On 1/15/15 3:05 PM, dave 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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