Congrats Jim. Sounds like a real Chhristmas present!!!!!!! Merry Christmas to all, de Milt, N5IA
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Sheldon" <[email protected]> To: "Elecraft Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2010 5:40 PM Subject: [Elecraft] New K3/P3 is here > The new K3/P3 arrived about 1:00 this afternoon. The boxes were in > pristine shape, not like UPS's usual "smack 'em around and knock holes in > the box routine. > > I quickly mounted a black & red Anderson power pole on the bottom end of > the power cord to mate up with my P/S connections and hooked everything up > as per instructions. K3 worked fine, but couldn't get any signals on the > P3's display. It passed self test just fine and was talking to the K3 as > all the frequency displays changed with the K3. Quick email to Gary > Surrency at Elecraft got close to instant response asking for further > symptoms. Didn't really have much more to tell him. Wife and I went to > supper and when I got back there was another email from Gary with some > things to check. First place I went discovered P86 on the RF board had > popped completely loose, probably in shipping. A quick "plug it back in" > and this time I put a small cable tie around it and the PC pin header it's > plugged into so it won't work loose again. Put everything back together > and BINGO! P3 now displays signals all over the place. > > Happy camper. After getting my paddles hooked up earlier, I heard NR7T > calling CQ on 20 so I answered him. Quick QSO as the band was fading > fast. Got a 559 out of him and later realized I hadn't set the power and > it was running 5 watts. QRP still works!!!!! > > Jim - > W0EB > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
