It isn't dead any more, thanks to Gary! Got ready for the Spartan Sprint last Mon night, and made a couple of Q's around 1600 PST. Turned KX1 off, had dinner, and at 1800, came back in, turned it on ... to silence. Finally figured out the RX was dead, TX still OK. Tried to finish Sprint with K2, but had another unrelated issue with some part of the antenna system, and by this time, I was wet (raining), not in a great mood about radio-thingies, and the Sprint only lasts 2 hrs, so I was sort of out of airspeed, altitude, and ideas. Final score: Tubby Class (I refuse to weigh the K2, gel cell, headfones, and bencher paddle) for 4 QSO's.
There followed an appeal to Gary, followed immediately by a 2 pg set of suggested troubleshooting procedures. They worked -- the BFO wasn't running. However, when I touched the scope probe to the BFO crystal lead, the RX came alive. Now, I can't get it to quit for further troubleshooting. Maybe BFO crystal is a tad sluggish, who knows. Working is OK with me. But, to the point: Yet again, and as everyone on this list knows, Elecraft has truly "broken the code" on stellar customer service. I didn't really want another multi-mode, 100W radio so I bought a vanilla K2, but I'm beginning to think I'm going to add the Amp, SSB and the tuner and unload one of my Asian radios. I seriously doubt I'd have gotten a reply from Kenwood, Icom, or Yaesu, let alone detailed test procedures. 73 and Happy Holidays to all, Fred K6DGW Auburn CA CM98lw _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com