Dead K3

[todd ruby-2]

This is a new and disturbing issue. I had just made 2 contacts one to Congo on CW on 15 one to Serbia on SSB on 20 and I was just monitoring a station and reading something when all of a sudden his signal went silent and I had no output power whatsoever! I did not touch the radio at all, it just went dead on xmit and rx.

Does anyone have any idea what has happened?

thanks in advance

todd

WB2ZAB
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Hi Todd,

Has there been a power cut?

No seriously, check if your rig is getting power OK.

Always start at the Power Station and work your way forward.

Check connectors and fuses.

73 from David GM4JJJ

> On 15 May 2016, at 23:05, todd ruby <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> This is a new and disturbing issue. I had just made 2 contacts one to Congo on CW on 15 one to Serbia on SSB on 20 and I was just monitoring a station and reading something when all of a sudden his signal went silent and I had no output power whatsoever! I did not touch the radio at all, it just went dead on xmit and rx.
>
> Does anyone have any idea what has happened?
>
> thanks in advance
>
> todd
>
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[todd ruby-2]

Thanks to everyone who gave me some ideas. In fact what I needed to do was to reset the circuit breaker on the K3. All is well 59+20 in France!

73

todd

WB2ZAB

> On May 15, 2016, at 6:39 PM, David Anderson <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> Hi Todd,
>
> Has there been a power cut?
>
> No seriously, check if your rig is getting power OK.
>
> Always start at the Power Station and work your way forward.
>
> Check connectors and fuses.
>
> 73 from David GM4JJJ
>
>> On 15 May 2016, at 23:05, todd ruby <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>
>> This is a new and disturbing issue. I had just made 2 contacts one to Congo on CW on 15 one to Serbia on SSB on 20 and I was just monitoring a station and reading something when all of a sudden his signal went silent and I had no output power whatsoever! I did not touch the radio at all, it just went dead on xmit and rx.
>>
>> Does anyone have any idea what has happened?
>>
>> thanks in advance
>>
>> todd
>>
>> WB2ZAB
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On 5/15/2016 22:31, todd ruby wrote:
> Thanks to everyone who gave me some ideas. In fact what I needed to do was to reset the circuit breaker on the K3. All is well 59+20 in France!

I wonder why the circuit breaker tripped in the first place, though.  
There's usually a reason, which can lead to unpleasant surprises.

73,

Scott  K9MA

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Madison, Wisconsin, USA

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