[Elecraft] Birdies

[GRANT YOUNGMAN]

I might fiddle some more with cable placement.  I also plan to clear all of the signal removal data and just rework it.

I had the birdies cleaned up with the removal tool in most areas of the bands I operate.  But since relocating the middle of last year into an “antenna free” zone, I’ve been primarily using my KX3 with various temporary and stealth antennas.  Had the K3 out the past couple of weeks to put a couple of updates in, and while tuning around to make sure everything was working again, really noticed them.  Most likely I didn’t get the various cables back in the same place they were the last time I had the radio torn down, and that affected the previous removal settings.

As someone suggested, it might be external signals, but they move backwards like a birdie and don’t show up on the KX3, so it isn’t likely.  It didn’t help either that at least part of the time, I had no antenna connected, which made even the weak ones that normally get buried in band noise stick out … :-)


> 
> The firmware birdie removal took care of every bothersome birdie (and I am a stickler about weak signal performance) except for one that was still an S2 or so ... and that was in a portion of the band that I don't care much about.
> 
> I did play around quite a bit with cable placement (see humorous note below) to prior to using the firmware fix, and didn't necessarily find the best arrangement to be the ones that Elecraft recommends.  By the way, the best layout is quite dependent upon whether or not you have the 2nd receiver installed.
> 

Grant NQ5T
K3 #2091, KX3 #8342