[Elecraft] K3 dilemma update.

[Don Wilhelm]

Richard,

The two horizontal bars in the SWR display indicate that the KAT3 is not 
installed, go to the menu and activate it.

As for plugging in the speaker, hold the top cover in a tilted position 
and route the wire under the horizontal bar in the center, then onto the 
speaker plug on the vertical board near the left rear corner.  You 
should see the male header easily.

If you have a saved configuration file, load it, and I think your K3 
will come back to life.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 8/8/2021 11:30 AM, Richard Isaacs via Elecraft wrote:
> As mentioned, one day it worked, overnight while I slept, gremlins at work.
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> 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.
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> 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.”
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> 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.
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> Any help would be appreciated and useful. I can’t see how one day it is perfect and the next day it is not.
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> Thanking you all in advance,
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