Wes, We'll be happy to send you replacement cables.
That said, I've never seen anything like this. I have a prototype K3 in my lab that was built in 2007 and shows no evidence of corrosion on TMP connectors, and I live less than a mile from saltwater. I'm glad you found the problem in your case, but fortunately it doesn't apply to any significant number of K3s. Since TMP connectors use industry-standard plating, I would be concerned that other equipment at your QTH is being similarly affected. Are you by any chance using air conditioning that humidifies the air? Otherwise I'm having a hard time understanding how your QTH (Tuscon?) could affect connectors in this way. 73, Wayne N6KR On Feb 24, 2014, at 9:01 AM, "Wes (N7WS)" <w...@triconet.org> 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 ______________________________________________________________ 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
