It's finally happened to me too! Last night I talked for a few seconds before realizing My antenna was disconnected for storms. After a few seconds, the K3 gave a strenuous bunch of beeps, a flashing err message, and wouldn't stop. Cycling power stopped the excitement but now I have NO RF out and NO RX signals. In the excitement of the moent, I didn't think to reember the error code and it won't come back. It's hard to believe that a few seconds, literally, blew up this veteran rig, serial in the 3K range! Much fiddling and reading the book has produced no improvement, so I think I have a hard error. I'm no stranget to circuitry or troubleshooting, but really have no interest in plunging into the morass that is the K3 guts. Not to mention that, at almost 84, I may not live long enough to get through it.
The only observations I have are that keying and RX options, like filter adjustment are working. If I talk on SSB, I get ALC indication. In FM mode, the RX hiss comes up VERY loud, while audio out in all other modes is very low, even at max gain. Main and SUB RX act the same. SO, does anyone have any advice about what to do next (too soon for recycling)? Is Elecraft providing reasonable turnaround time on this sort of repair? Is there quality service available closer to the east coast? Should I worry about hexes and avoid turning on my spare K3? I have some level one checking lined up with an experienced friend, but doubt it will show us much. The loss of both TX output and receive sensitivity points to something common to RX and TX, but who knows??? Thanks, Wilson W4BOH PS: My Kenwood T-599 and R-599, from 1975 or so, are online now, if anyone wants to talk to me via the ether. ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
