Hi Dave,
I train all of my W3LPL operators to always check their receiver sensitivity before a contest and every time they change to a different band or a different radio. This is an essential skill and habit that should be ingrained into every successful contester and DXer. Simply pushing the K3 attenuator button is enough. If the noise level doesn't drop dramatically there's a problem! 73 Frank W3LPL ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Olean" <k1...@metrocast.net> To: "John Kountz" <j...@t6ee.com>, elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2020 7:00:34 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] My K3's 10 meter band now functions That happened to me here on ten meters a few years ago. I had just built up a good ten meter station and W1UE came up to operate it. He had a K3 at his house, so I never interfered with any of his operating techniques, but he was complaining about the poor propagation all day on Saturday. He left at sunset and I went back to the house to find a few e mails from friends saying that they had called and had a very hard time getting through and that my receiver was deaf. After I had dinner, I went back to the shack with test gear to test the receiver sensitivity. That is when I found he had the wrong antenna set with the RX push button. He spent the entire day making contacts with 40 dB of attenuation in the line. When W1UE showed up on Sunday he worked all the folks he missed the day before and we had a good laugh (at our expense). We still chuckle over that weekend! We don't make that mistake now. Dave K1WHS On 12/16/2020 1:08 PM, John Kountz wrote: > Thanks o all of those replying with serious considerations. In reviewing the > responses, one of you hit the nail on the head: a dumb operator error > occurred, the wrong antenna had been selected for the 10 meter band. I > suppose most knew, antenna selection is couple to band a factor I had > forgotten.) How this misalignment happened I'll have to attribute to a button > push long forgotten. > Again, thanks top all and winning scores regardless of the contest,. > 73 > John Kountz, WO1S > > J Kountz > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 k1...@metrocast.net ______________________________________________________________ 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 donov...@starpower.net ______________________________________________________________ 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
