[TVARC] Thanks, NP2B

[John Ellis]

Frank,

If you are at all familiar with the K3, you realize it
will happen to you over and over and over and over
again. Owning and operating a K3 or K3S is a very
humbling experience. Once you think you know the
rig well enough, something will come along and bite
you in the butt, and you say - "I didn't know that!"
or "I should have known that!"

Happens to me more than I would ever admit ......
73,
J







On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 3:17 AM, Frank M <phrankxm at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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