I just sent the message below to support, but I suspect they are all partying in Dayton. If anyone has any other ideas I'd love to hear them - thanks! - jeff wk6i
---------- Forwarded message ---------- hi - I recently lent my K3 #00027 as part of the W1AW/7 multi-op from Nevada. The environment was not well controlled and I'm pretty sure my receiver was damaged during a band change. On the last day of the operation I was calling CQ on 12m and getting no response. Turns out everyone was calling me but I was hearing almost nothing. On my bench I checked it using an XG2. The 50uV setting gave only S3. I then did a full parameter initialization and then tried to calibrate the RF gain using the K3 utility. The utility reported that there was not enough signal to perform the calibration. I also have an XG1 so I tried that. Same result. I tried turning the pre-amp on and off, which did cause about a 2 S unit difference as might be expected. The attenuator also caused an audible difference but not a useful S meter reading. One might suspect that I've blown out one or more of those PIN diodes before the preamp. If I had any laying around I might try a swap, but...;) Also: I do have the jumper for the extreme signal protection installed. -- Jeff Stai ~ wk6i.j...@gmail.com Twisted Oak Winery ~ http://www.twistedoak.com/ Facebook ~ http://www.facebook.com/twistedoak ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
