[TVARC] Thanks, NP2B

[Frank M]

John is simply applying the national standard troubleshooting process. First check the cockpit!!!
Glad you got it working again. I bet it will not happen more than one or two more times.

73’s
Frank KA1AF 

> On Dec 13, 2017, at 9:06 PM, George Briggs <k2dm at att.net> wrote:
> 
> 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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