[TVARC] Thanks, NP2B

[Dennis McKinney]

599 NOT being true are you serious!!! Now thats the air out of my sails...
 😂😂😎😎😁😁



On Dec 13, 2017 4:29 PM, "Rich Erlichman" <rich.erlichman at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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