I've been operating my new K3S for about 2 months now and love it.
Last week, however, something unexpected happened: as soon as I keyed the paddles or hit f1 to key the radio (CW), the radio went keydown. Only by running the power down below 50-70 watts does it finally key up. It has happened a number of times since then. However, it doesn't happen all the time. I've disconnected extraneous cables, moved power supplies and computer and cables. No change. I've reattached cables, relocated equipment back to where it was. Again, no change. Nothing seems to make a difference. It is also very sporadic. I can sit down and operate without an unexpected keydown event. Other times, I can sit down and bang, it's gone key down and I've got to run the power down to operate. Until last week, it never happened before. As I said, no changes have been made to the station: equipment configuration and positioning, cable routing, antenna SWR/orientation, etc. My next step is to find my box of ferrites and start clamping them on cables-I've never had to do that at this station for any of the five radios I've ever used here over many years. I figure if any of my past radios were RFI susceptible it would have been my OMNI VI's. But I never had an RFI-issue with them. Any ideas? 73, Dale, kg5u ______________________________________________________________ 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
