[Elecraft] K3 dilemma update.

[Richard Isaacs]

As mentioned, one day it worked, overnight while I slept, gremlins at work.

Unit powers up but will not receive or transmit. White noise is heard and all buttons seem operable. The only issue I do notice, when ATU is tapped, instead of a number indicating swr, two bars horizontally appear and at the bottom of the display 5W is displayed. Somehow I think nothing is burned but an adjustment needs to be made. P3 is operational but of course not showing scales or waterfall. Upon advisement from others, I undid the top and see nor smell and burning or charing, I am asking for help in plugging back in speaker plug as well. It came unplugged during removal of top and I want to make sure it goes back where it came from.

I have two other radios running off an MFJ switch 1700c, and they RX/TX. Perhaps I tapped or held a button and have disconnected RX/TX and could be easily rectified without a long and costly trip back to Made In America. I live in Syracuse and hate to think of the gorillas along the way handling my “stuff.”

Any ideas and or instructing me where the speaker plug would be helpful. I am not a builder, nor a contester…the unit is casually used, and there are very few “Elecrafters” here in Central New York to speak with. Oh, I went back to a prior configuration from Doug Nathan at Made In America, and did a revision of firmware 5.67 which was successful.

Any help would be appreciated and useful. I can’t see how one day it is perfect and the next day it is not.

Thanking you all in advance,

Richard Isaacs
W3RKI