12 meter band on K3

This morning I was listening to different bands on my K2. Got to the 12 meters band and lots of cw activity.( K2 is in the building stage.) So switched to my K3 to work some stations.  No 12 meter activity heard. Only couple of birdies. Switched to another rig and and another antenna, Nothing heard the 12 meter band.
 Does something need tweaking on the K3?

Don...w2xb

[Rick Prather-2]

Don,

Do you have the RX antenna selected on just 12M?

The selection is band specific.

Rick
K6LE

On 12/16/2012, at 9:11 , [hidden email] wrote:

> This morning I was listening to different bands on my K2. Got to the 12
> meters band and lots of cw activity.( K2 is in the building stage.) So
> switched to my K3 to work some stations.  No 12 meter activity heard. Only
> couple of birdies. Switched to another rig and and another antenna, Nothing
> heard the 12 meter band.
> Does something need tweaking on the K3?
>
> Don...w2xb
>
>

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[Don Wilhelm-4]

Don,

Were you really tuned to 12 meters? or somewhere else?  There is the
possibility that you have a problem with your K2.

I have not listened to 12 meters, but if I understand you correctly, you
listened to 12 meters with the K2, the K3 and some other radio - and 2
out of 3 did not hear the signals.

That causes me to wonder if you were really listening to 12 meters on
the K2.  One check you can make is to use the internal frequency counter
probe and see what the frequency at TP1 (the VFO output) is when tuned
to 12 meters - then add 4913 kHz and you should have to actual operating
frequency.

There is one more check to make to see if you are really hearing 12
meters - run the K3 (tuned to 12 meters) into a dummy load, then connect
a short antenna to the K2, placing that antenna near the dummy load.  
You should be able to hear the K3 signal on the K2.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 12/16/2012 12:11 PM, [hidden email] wrote:
> This morning I was listening to different bands on my K2. Got to the 12
> meters band and lots of cw activity.( K2 is in the building stage.) So
> switched to my K3 to work some stations.  No 12 meter activity heard. Only
> couple of birdies. Switched to another rig and and another antenna, Nothing
> heard the 12 meter band.
>   Does something need tweaking on the K3?
>
> Don...w2xb
>

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[ab2tc]

Hi,

But 12m shouldn't be completely dead. Even at this late hour there is a fair bit of CW activity on 12m heard on my K3 with a G5RV antenna (which is actually close to resonance on 12m). I hear some weak SSB signals in the phone sections. Right now wh7w is calling CQ on 24893 without any takers. Well, now he seems to have given up..

AB2TC - Knut

Don Wilhelm-4 wrote

Don,

Were you really tuned to 12 meters? or somewhere else?  There is the
possibility that you have a problem with your K2.

I have not listened to 12 meters, but if I understand you correctly, you
listened to 12 meters with the K2, the K3 and some other radio - and 2
out of 3 did not hear the signals.

That causes me to wonder if you were really listening to 12 meters on
the K2.  One check you can make is to use the internal frequency counter
probe and see what the frequency at TP1 (the VFO output) is when tuned
to 12 meters - then add 4913 kHz and you should have to actual operating
frequency.

There is one more check to make to see if you are really hearing 12
meters - run the K3 (tuned to 12 meters) into a dummy load, then connect
a short antenna to the K2, placing that antenna near the dummy load.  
You should be able to hear the K3 signal on the K2.

73,
Don W3FPR
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