I had some weird stuff with my K3 this weekend. I had set it up in my car on Friday for a Saturday trip in the PA QSO Party. After a cool damp night, on Saturday morning the K3 was weird: every time I tuned a few KHz I heard relays clicking inside, I assume from the antenna tuner. And I was getting “out of band” error messages when tuning above 3750 or so.
After half an hour of warming up with power on, and a bit of RF going out, things calmed down and worked OK for the rest of the weekend.
Does this indicate some failing components and/or marginal connections? Or anything else that might indicate further issues down the road (oops, sorry for that pun :-) ) ?
This weekend we also encountered one other odd problem. Every time driver AF8A would close the driver door on the van, I’d lose audio for a second or so. I was scratching my head imagining what sort of intermittent connection or other problem we were dealing with. About ten hours into the PAQP trip we figured out that the Bose QC-15 noise cancelling headphones were working quite well :-)
73 - Jim K8MR
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