G'Day, I would like to have a dollar for every time I assembled a multi board controller, took it to the site for installation only to find a fault on startup.
The equipment was made by a Dallas, TX company renowned for superior performance and quality in their equipment and exported worldwide, used by governments and private corporations alike. Murphy (no offence to the Irish) has a nasty habit of turning up on a job site just when you don't need him to be there...:-) There is an Aussie slang word we use daily that covers this but I won't subject you to it..:-) I am positive Elecraft will sort the issue out quickly once they have it back on the bench. 73's Gary On 21 April 2011 06:45, David Gilbert <xda...@cis-broadband.com> wrote: > > 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 > -- VK4FD - Motorhome Mobile Elecraft Equipment K3 #679, KPA-500 #018 Living the dream!!! ______________________________________________________________ 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
