[Elecraft] K3

[Grant Youngman]

It isn’t all that hard to tell if that’s the problem … pull the FP board, put a little (you don’t have to soak them) DeOxit on the pins and reseat it.   Or pull it and simply reseat it a time or two to wipe the contacts well.  Gold pins are good long term to prevent reoccurrence in several years, but there are other ways to skin the proverbial cat in the meantime.

I have my kit of gold pins sitting in reserve.  Put them in the amp connector to forestall a problem that hadn't occurred.  Have yet (since 2007) to have a need to put them on the FP board.   But tomorrow is another day. You never know :-)

Grant NQ5T

> On Jul 30, 2018, at 1:37 PM, Fred Jensen <k6dgw at foothill.net> wrote:
> 
> Do any of the other controls give unexpected results?  My very old K3 [#642] developed that problem.  For example, tapping ATU TUNE might switch the AGC from slow to fast instead of initiating an ATU cycle.  I found:
> 
> 1.  Tapping or holding really hard [hard enough that I had to hold the radio] would give the expected action.
> 
> 2.  The effect was more common on controls I rarely used and much less common on those I used all the time.
> 
> The K3 went to the Elecraft hospital a month ago for some other repairs, and they replaced some connector pins with the gold-plated variety.  The above described effect disappeared when the radio came home.
> 
> 73,
> 
> Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
> Sparks NV DM09dn
> Washoe County
> 
> On 7/30/2018 8:15 AM, Ken Roberson via Elecraft wrote:
>> Hello all
>> 
>> This must be menu item on the K3 that I have not found.
>> 
>> When I push the tune button the display will change from the RFout meter to ALC
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>> 
>> On the other K3 when pushing the tune button the display dose not change.
>> I prefer that the display not change.
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks 73 Ken K5DNL
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