[Elecraft] Hats off to the folks from Elecraft for their support

[kg9hfrank at gmail.com]

So in the past week, I drove about 2,500 miles BEFORE I drove non-stop to Tampa yesterday.

Of course I completely tested out my trusty KX3 before I left so…. radio in hand we were off to Tampa, driving non-stop and left at 2:30am.

In the first hour, I noticed I had the backlight on and of course the +12DVC was not connected so I decided to plug in the DC and top off the battery.
(Batteries about 4 months old.)  Listening to the low end of 40 as I cruised along.
Then I got a warning light on the display, and then noticed the radio was hot!

Un-plug, Plug-in, field strip the batteries out, measure everything with DC voltmeter from my go-kit I made up, all seemed ok on my end.

A call to the automated Elecraft company (it was well before anyone should be there and left a message.)  
Thinking back it was probably kryptic but they figured out what I was trying to say.

One of their guys called me back and walked me through the process, I did not miss any steps.

Conclusion by Elecraft - probably one dead cell (??!!)

I ran it on the van battery for the balance of the trip, all seemed ok.

Just left Best Buy with new batteries.  All is well.

I guess the batteries I bought from Frys were not as good as I thought.

Could not find any Eneloop batteries in stock so I got Ray-O-Vac 2500mAh batteries.
I will be on the air with my Alexoop tonight 14.305 just after Sunset locally.  
All is well. Thank you Elecraft.

Frank KG9H/4 Indian Shores, FL