Field Day
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Hi,
Took my K3 to Field Day again this year and ran mostly RTTY. Made about 130 "Q's" which is about normal for Field Day. We operated on the dry, dusty and hot plains east of Colorado Springs CO. Wondering if anyone has a good and thorough cleaning scheme for the K3 and P3? They picked up a lot of dust and grim and I want to clean them well before installing them back into the shack. BTW, add another weird malfunction to those this radio has already experienced. When first powered up at the Field Day site when RIT was pressed the LCD brightness menu would display. PF1 is set up for a different function for those thinking I was holding the button too long. After shutting everything down and restarting it worked fine. This K3 has had some weird problems in the past with all of them confirmed. Take pride in the USA. 73 Jim, W0EM ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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A few friends and I operated field day from a field near Charleston, SC.
Two of us operated the CW station inside a tent, with my K3/P3 combo, using a small Honda generator. The power supply is the small PowerWerx SS-30DV. On Sunday, the rig got plenty hot, as it was in the sun coming from the tent door. We did about 420 CW contacts on 40 and 20, K4AOC. Except when the generator ran out of gas (only once), we had no problems with the K3 shutting down, or anything else. The various receive adjustments all came in handy at one time or other during the operations. Success was declared at about noon, as rig and operators were all getting too hot. The SSB station was inside a nice air-conditioned building. Imagine that. I guess since we were tuffing-it-out on CW, they figured we didn't need no stinkin' AC either.... I REALLY enjoy my K3/P3! 73, Terry, WB4JFI -----Original Message----- From: Jim Harris Sent: Monday, June 25, 2012 12:51 PM To: Elecraft Email Subject: [Elecraft] Field Day Hi, Took my K3 to Field Day again this year and ran mostly RTTY. Made about 130 "Q's" which is about normal for Field Day. We operated on the dry, dusty and hot plains east of Colorado Springs CO. Wondering if anyone has a good and thorough cleaning scheme for the K3 and P3? They picked up a lot of dust and grim and I want to clean them well before installing them back into the shack. BTW, add another weird malfunction to those this radio has already experienced. When first powered up at the Field Day site when RIT was pressed the LCD brightness menu would display. PF1 is set up for a different function for those thinking I was holding the button too long. After shutting everything down and restarting it worked fine. This K3 has had some weird problems in the past with all of them confirmed. Take pride in the USA. 73 Jim, W0EM ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 3:10 PM, <[hidden email]> wrote:
> ...Two of us operated the CW station inside a tent....The SSB > station was inside a nice air-conditioned building. ... =========== CW ops are more manly, of course. Tony KT0NY -- http://www.isb.edu/faculty/facultydir.aspx?ddlFaculty=352 ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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In reply to this post by radioshoppe
Congrats on success at field day with the K3. My K3 ran phone, CW and
PSK31 for the duration as the GOTA and a great shot of me and the K3 even made the local paper :) Dust and junk. We were fortunate to have low dust this year at FD but here is what I do with dust. I do lots of photography with my DSLR and often in dusty places (railfan). I use a fine natural bristle brush in a breezy place to clean dust of the lenses and camera body taking care not to brush dirt into cracks and slots near knobs and buttons. a blast of canned air or using a vacuum cleaner is fine on outer surfaces. just be carfull around connectors at the back. airflow from the vacuum cleaner can create static. I fix large laser printers and used a vacuum a million times near the electronics without ESD troubles when using it with care. 73 VE3DVY On 6/25/2012 12:51 PM, Jim Harris wrote: > Hi, > Took my K3 to Field Day again this year and ran mostly RTTY. Made about 130 "Q's" which is about normal for Field Day. We operated on the dry, dusty and hot plains east of Colorado Springs CO. Wondering if anyone has a good and thorough cleaning scheme for the K3 and P3? They picked up a lot of dust and grim and I want to clean them well before installing them back into the shack. > BTW, add another weird malfunction to those this radio has already experienced. When first powered up at the Field Day site when RIT was pressed the LCD brightness menu would display. PF1 is set up for a different function for those thinking I was holding the button too long. After shutting everything down and restarting it worked fine. This K3 has had some weird problems in the past with all of them confirmed. > > Take pride in the USA. 73 > > > > Jim, W0EM > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[hidden email] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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