[Elecraft] K3 Issue

[w5sum at comcast.net]

ok I'm going to be answering several of your suggestions at once here.

First, when I powered off last night, I used the power button on the K3 
itself, I did not kill the power supply first

The sub RX has been turned off and the RX Ant is NOT selected. Ant 1 is 
selected and the Antenna IS plugged into the port

The is NO noise shown on the S meter and I have a pretty constant S3  to S5 
noise here at my qth.

Regardless of mode selected there is no power output, the display says 0

When I activate the tuner, regardless of band, it shows no SWR, says 5 watts 
out, but there is NO POWER OUT of it. It always acts like it is matching, or 
sounds like it is.

Ronnie

-----Original Message----- 
From: Bill Frantz
Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2020 11:40 AM
To: w5sum at comcast.net
Cc: Ian Kahn ; Elecraft Reflector
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 Issue

The K3 can get antennas in a bewildering collection of ways. If
the RX antenna switch is on -- and this was my way of getting on
reception -- it might be your problem. The K3 can also send
received signals out on one of the BNC connectors and expect to
get them back on another.

I recommend a careful reading of the manual, perhaps in PDF form
with a search for "antenna". The manual is downloadable from the
Elecraft web site.

73 Bill AE6JV

On 7/19/20 at 12:10 PM, w5sum at comcast.net wrote:

>yes sir.. using antenna port 1 and have it selected.  HOWEVER.. I did move 
>the antenna to port 2 and selected that port to no improvement. Same issue

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