[Elecraft] KX3 sudden total audio loss

[Bill Frantz]

Could be, but the radio was run from a 95AH lead-acid battery 
with solar panel charger and it has internal betteries which 
will carry it over a loss of external power.

The charge controller was manual as the electronic one was 
making too much RF noise. They monitored the voltage and plugged 
in the solar panels when the battery got low and unplugged them 
when it got high.

Someone could have kicked the wires though.

73 Bill AE6JV

On 6/30/17 at 5:11 PM, gthornton at thorntonmostullaw.com (George 
Thornton) wrote:

>One possible explanation might be a voltage spike or drop. 
>Could have caused software confusion, remedied by rebooting.
>
>
>
>From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net 
>[mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Bill Frantz
>Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2017 5:06 PM
>To: Elecraft at mailman.qth.net
>Subject: [Elecraft] KX3 sudden total audio loss
>
>During Field Day, my KX3 was running SSB in the GOTA station.
>All of a sudden, it lost all audio output, both speaker and
>phone. A normal shutdown and restart restored the audio. Does
>anyone have any idea what might have happened. (Getting it
>working was more important than collection debugging information.)
>
>73 Bill AE6JV

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