So in the past week, I drove about 2,500 miles BEFORE I drove non-stop to Tampa yesterday.
Of course I completely tested out my trusty KX3 before I left so…. radio in hand we were off to Tampa, driving non-stop and left at 2:30am. In the first hour, I noticed I had the backlight on and of course the +12DVC was not connected so I decided to plug in the DC and top off the battery. (Batteries about 4 months old.) Listening to the low end of 40 as I cruised along. Then I got a warning light on the display, and then noticed the radio was hot! Un-plug, Plug-in, field strip the batteries out, measure everything with DC voltmeter from my go-kit I made up, all seemed ok on my end. A call to the automated Elecraft company (it was well before anyone should be there and left a message.) Thinking back it was probably kryptic but they figured out what I was trying to say. One of their guys called me back and walked me through the process, I did not miss any steps. Conclusion by Elecraft - probably one dead cell (??!!) I ran it on the van battery for the balance of the trip, all seemed ok. Just left Best Buy with new batteries. All is well. I guess the batteries I bought from Frys were not as good as I thought. Could not find any Eneloop batteries in stock so I got Ray-O-Vac 2500mAh batteries. I will be on the air with my Alexoop tonight 14.305 just after Sunset locally. All is well. Thank you Elecraft. Frank KG9H/4 Indian Shores, FL ______________________________________________________________ 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
