Thanks Cookie - the two hams who reported the chirp are long-time CW operators who I've known for many years so I trust their feedback. In a separate case again the op reporting the chirp is a long-time CW op too.
Could this be some anomaly of propagation? That would be very odd indeed. Thanks again! Pete, W1RM From: WILLIS COOKE [mailto:wrco...@yahoo.com] Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2012 9:14 AM To: Peter Chamalian; elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 Chirp on 6 Meters Peter, I have operated 6 meter CW and I have not had a report of chirp. I have heard some signals that sound a bit strange because of propagation anomalies. I have no way of knowing if this is your problem, but recently licensed hams have not heard the chirps that were common in the 50s and earlier so do not assume that the reports are really valid. Good luck! Willis 'Cookie' Cooke K5EWJ & Trustee N5BPS, USS Cavalla, USS Stewart _____ From: Peter Chamalian <w...@arrl.net> To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2012 7:37 AM Subject: [Elecraft] K3 Chirp on 6 Meters If you have operated 6 meter CW and had a report of a chirp, I'd appreciate hearing about it. I had several of them and my K3 is back at Elecraft right now for service, but they are not able to reproduce the problem. I know there is a mod for the synthesizer board and that was made without solving the problem. No, it's not my power supply either - a big 50 amp Astron provides 13.77 volts key up and 13.74 volts key down. It's not RF because when I got the report I reduced power (external amp off) down to the point where the station could not copy me and the chirp was still there. The strange thing is I had a local listen to my signal and it was clean. At a later time, two reports (one from eastern MA the other from SC and I'm in central CT) said I had a chirp. In both cases I had been on 6 for a while. Is it frequency dependent? Is it heat dependent? Again, I would appreciate hearing from you if you have had reports of a chirp on 6 meters - what frequency were you on at the time? How long had you been operating (was the rig getting warm?) or any other observation that might help to pinpoint a way of duplicating the problem. Thanks! Pete, W1RM ______________________________________________________________ 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
