Certainly mistakes happen ... I'm just saying that I think it's premature to accuse Elecraft of not bothering to check the rig before it was shipped. It could be a board that went bad or a connector that became unseated or whatever.
Dave AB7E On 4/20/2011 12:32 PM, Wes Stewart wrote: > Not necessarily. He said he worked with factory support on the telephone > before they said to ship it back. I've found them to be quite helpful and > knowledgeable. Eric asked earlier what kind of microphone he was using. That > was my first thought, like no bias on an electret, but if this wasn't already > determined by tech support then there should be some corrective action taken. > > I recently had a friend come to my shack with a brand new K3 that didn't > transmit at all, although it received perfectly. He thought that perhaps he > hadn't loaded the firmware correctly. I loaded it and we then compared his > to mine, parameter by parameter and found nothing wrong, except that it still > failed to transmit, of course. It was a weekend so calling for help wasn't an > option. > > He did later and it was finally determined that the KREF3 board was bad. > Failures happen. > > --- On Wed, 4/20/11, David Gilbert<xda...@cis-broadband.com> wrote: > >> That's kind of a premature question isn't it? >> >> Looking forward to your future post identifying what the >> problem turns >> out to be .... >> >> Dave AB7E >> >> >> >> On 4/20/2011 10:03 AM, Scott McDowell wrote: >>> Hello >>> Has anyone besides me recieved a factory built >> k3/100/F that had no, (like in zero), >>> output in the ssb mode. Or am I just the lucky one. I >> worked on it for a while with >>> support on the telephone, then they told me to send it >> back to the factory. >>> That sounds like someone at the factory isn't doing >> the testing that should be done >>> on the new rigs before they are shipped. >>> Scott >>> n5sm ______________________________________________________________ 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
