Congrats on success at field day with the K3. My K3 ran phone, CW and PSK31 for the duration as the GOTA and a great shot of me and the K3 even made the local paper :)
Dust and junk. We were fortunate to have low dust this year at FD but here is what I do with dust. I do lots of photography with my DSLR and often in dusty places (railfan). I use a fine natural bristle brush in a breezy place to clean dust of the lenses and camera body taking care not to brush dirt into cracks and slots near knobs and buttons. a blast of canned air or using a vacuum cleaner is fine on outer surfaces. just be carfull around connectors at the back. airflow from the vacuum cleaner can create static. I fix large laser printers and used a vacuum a million times near the electronics without ESD troubles when using it with care. 73 VE3DVY On 6/25/2012 12:51 PM, Jim Harris wrote: > Hi, > Took my K3 to Field Day again this year and ran mostly RTTY. Made about 130 > "Q's" which is about normal for Field Day. We operated on the dry, dusty and > hot plains east of Colorado Springs CO. Wondering if anyone has a good and > thorough cleaning scheme for the K3 and P3? They picked up a lot of dust and > grim and I want to clean them well before installing them back into the shack. > BTW, add another weird malfunction to those this radio has already > experienced. When first powered up at the Field Day site when RIT was > pressed the LCD brightness menu would display. PF1 is set up for a different > function for those thinking I was holding the button too long. After > shutting everything down and restarting it worked fine. This K3 has had some > weird problems in the past with all of them confirmed. > > Take pride in the USA. 73 > > > > Jim, W0EM > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 > ______________________________________________________________ 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
