Hi Wes, These are very well resolved photos. From what I can see, there's no center pin on the top TMP plug - but this may be an illusion. If it were true, you'd have more problems than a birdie.
If I were you'd I'd request a new TMP cable and see how that works to fix the birdie problem. Contact k3supp...@elecraft.com and see what they can do to assist. 73, matt W6NIA On Mon, 24 Feb 2014 10:01:53 -0700, you wrote: >Sadly, they probably won't if my recent experience is a guide. > >On Feb 15 I wrote to this reflector: > > "In over five years of ownership I've never heard this birdie before so I > don't know whether it's new or I just missed it before. > > The birdie is S9 on 7.067 MHz and tunes at a 6X rate in the negative > direction. It's definitely internal. Anyone else have this?" > > >Two helpful guys responded and said that they did not hear it. I opened the >case and took all of 30 seconds to determine that the issue could be resolved >(temporarily I'm afraid) by wiggling the coax cables on the frequency >reference >board. The connectors on this board a badly corroded and moving them >apparently >broke through the corrosion and improved the connection. The birdie is still >there but is near the noise level and no longer S9. > >I reported my findings, including macro photos of the issue to Elecraft but >never heard a peep back. Rather disappointing. > >I've posted the photos here: >https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/Elecraft_K3/photos/albums/276423773 (The >cable to J2 is purposely unplugged to show the difference between the cable >connector and the socket.) > >Wes N7WS > > > >On 2/24/2014 7:19 AM, Toby Pennington wrote: >> Paul, I can confirm there is a birdie on about that frequency, but I also >> hear a lot of signals nearby. >>> >>> IF you don't have some kind of emergency that requires you to be on this >>> freq., I would just work around it for now. 10 meters is a very big band. >>> >>> Elecraft will take care of it in due time. >>> >>> Toby K4NH >>> > >______________________________________________________________ >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 Matt Zilmer, W6NIA -- "Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." -A. Lincoln ______________________________________________________________ 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
