[Elecraft] K3S: LCD backlight is on, but no segments are lit

[Wes Stewart]

You're an hour away from Elecraft. Your options:

1) Drive it down and tell them you'll wait.

2) Drive it down and ask for a loaner.

3) Come by my house in Tucson and I'll loan you one.

Wes  N7WS

8/2/2017 6:06 PM, Christopher Hoover wrote:
> I went to bed last night leaving the radio on to decode 6m meteor scatter.
>
> This morning I found the LCD blank.
>
> The backlight is on, but there are no segments lit.
>
> Power cycle does not change anything.
>
> All the settings seem reasonable:
>
> MN002;
> MP;MP007;
> MN003;
> MP;MP005;
> MN004;
> MP;MP003;
>
> Elecraft support says to send it in -- possibly a problem solder joint.
> The current repair backlog is 2-3 weeks.
>
> I am leaving for a trip on Monday and I was intended to take the radio with
> me, so sending it in would be ... inconvenient.   I'd be frustrated about
> losing the radio for 2-3 weeks even without the trip.
>
> Has anyone seen this problem and fixed it themselves?
>
> -ch
> 73 de AI6KG