[Elecraft] [KX3] CW Splatter?

[Don Wilhelm]

Roger,

Were you operating at home on a good power supply?  Or were you on 
batteries that may have become discharged below their limit?  The supply 
voltage may be a factor.

A properly operating KX3 will not splatter, so the problem may be on the 
receiving end.
Can you borrow a receiver or transceiver from a local ham, or take your 
KX3 with the dummy load to his shack since yours is portable?
If you do that, make certain you do not overload the monitoring 
receiver.  Place a short wire antenna on the receiving end and adjust 
its distance to the dummy load so the signal is S-9 or a bit less.

If you do find a problem, email support at elecraft.com.
One thing I might suggest is to use the VFO B Alternate Displays to show 
the voltage during transmit.  If it drops substantially, that might be 
one possible cause for that behavior.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 5/8/2018 5:55 PM, Roger Meadows rmeadows0827 at yahoo.com [KX3] wrote:
> I was informed via e-mail by a fellow ham that my CW signal from my KX3 
> was splattering about 11k. Although this is the only report I have even 
> received like this, and may be an issue on the other side, it still does 
> concern me.
> 
> I do not have another radio where I could transmit into a dummy load and 
> listen.