[TVARC] Thanks, NP2B

[Rich Erlichman]

Are you saying the “599” signal reports you were giving were not accurate reports? J

 

From: tvarc-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:tvarc-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of George Briggs
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2017 4:07 PM
To: tvarc at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [TVARC] Thanks, NP2B

 

Folks,

John, NP2B, does it again!  He suggested that, before I send my K3 with the “blown” front end

to Elecraft, I should check its performance on other bands than 10M, where received signals

were WAY down.  So I did.  Sonofagun, all the other bands were fine.  So I began to look elsewhere

for a problem.  I shoulda begun the entire process looking for an operator error.  You see, the K3

not only has two main antenna inputs, it also has an input for a separate receive antenna.  And

these inputs can be selected independently by band.  Somehow, the RX ANT button had been pushed

on my K3.  Since there was NO antenna connected to the RX ANT input, very few signals got

through to the receiver on 10M, like ND4G, whose vertical I can almost see from my back yard,

and K2PS who was using a 4-element beam at 25 feet.  Phooey!  If it hadn’t been for this issue, I

might have made 20 QSOs in the 10M contest instead of 19!

Thank you, John!

73,

George K2DM

 

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