[Elecraft] My K3's 10 meter band now functions

[David Olean]

That happened to me here on ten meters a few years ago. I had just built 
up a good ten meter station and W1UE came up to operate it.  He had a K3 
at his house, so I never interfered with any of his operating 
techniques, but he was complaining about the poor propagation all day on 
Saturday. He left at sunset and I went back to the house to find a few e 
mails from friends saying that they had called and had a very hard time 
getting through and that my receiver was deaf. After I had dinner, I 
went back to the shack with test gear to test the receiver sensitivity. 
That is when I found he had the wrong antenna set with the RX push 
button.  He spent the entire day making contacts with 40 dB of 
attenuation in the line.  When W1UE showed up on Sunday he worked all 
the folks he missed the day before and we had a good laugh (at our 
expense).  We still chuckle over that weekend! We don't make that 
mistake now.

Dave K1WHS

On 12/16/2020 1:08 PM, John Kountz wrote:
> Thanks o all of those replying with serious considerations.  In reviewing the responses, one of you hit the nail on the head: a dumb operator error occurred, the wrong antenna had been selected for the 10 meter band.  I suppose most knew, antenna selection is couple to band a factor I had forgotten.)  How this misalignment happened I'll have to attribute to a button push long forgotten.
> Again, thanks top all and winning scores regardless of the contest,.
> 73
> John Kountz, WO1S
>
> J Kountz
>
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