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K3 and FM mode.

Stan Grigaliunas
I purchased K3/100F in April of this year.  Great little radio.  I began to play with the K3_EZ and when I asked to Scan and populate the “K3 info” I have noticed that under Main Filter Bandwidth the FL1  is vacant and FL2 is 6.0, FL3 is 2.70, FL4 and FL5 are vacant.  I thought I purchased the KFL3B-FM also.  In checking the invoice, I did find the FM filter listed in the invoice.  As of this date, I have not found anyone to talk on 10 meter FM so I am not sure if it is working or not.  My question is, should the FM filter appear on the K3 Info?  If it should, then cracking open the box and physically looking for the FM filter would be my next move.  From reading the manual, I understood that the widest filters should be in FL1 position.  Am I all wet?  73, Stan
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Re: K3 and FM mode.

Don Wilhelm-4
Stan,

It is a matter of 6 or 7 screws to remove the top cover and examine the
installed filters.
You need to tell K3-EZ which filters you have installed because K3-EZ
has no mechanism to determine the filter width, that is information that
you must provide.

 From your filter designations it appears that your FL1 is unpopulated
in your configuration and that FL2 and FL3 are populated.  Open the top
cover and check the actual filters installed  This may be a case where
your filters were not set up properly, or in the worst case, if you
ordered the 13 MHz FM filter and it is not installed, you have a "beef"
with Elecraft, and that situation should be promptly resolved.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 8/7/2012 10:51 PM, Stan Grigaliunas wrote:
> I purchased K3/100F in April of this year.  Great little radio.  I began to play with the K3_EZ and when I asked to Scan and populate the “K3 info” I have noticed that under Main Filter Bandwidth the FL1  is vacant and FL2 is 6.0, FL3 is 2.70, FL4 and FL5 are vacant.  I thought I purchased the KFL3B-FM also.  In checking the invoice, I did find the FM filter listed in the invoice.  As of this date, I have not found anyone to talk on 10 meter FM so I am not sure if it is working or not.  My question is, should the FM filter appear on the K3 Info?  If it should, then cracking open the box and physically looking for the FM filter would be my next move.  From reading the manual, I understood that the widest filters should be in FL1 position.  Am I all wet?  73, Stan
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Re: K3 and FM mode.

Stan Grigaliunas
Don,

You are right, again.  I popped the top and the 13k FM filter is in the F1
spot.

I tried the K3-EZ and each time I ask to populate it come out with different
readings and once in a while the F1 block was filled with 13k.

Per jack Berry's suggestion, I used the K3 utility and all filters appeared
in the configuration window.

So I am sure all is well and will do a live test.  I have a Flex here too,
so will set up the actual test, just to be sure...

Like to thank all the good folks for help offered on this reflector.

73
Stan
Kenton Oh

K2-#6039, K3-#6368



-----Original Message-----
From: Don Wilhelm
Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2012 11:41 PM
To: Stan Grigaliunas
Cc: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 and FM mode.

Stan,

It is a matter of 6 or 7 screws to remove the top cover and examine the
installed filters.
You need to tell K3-EZ which filters you have installed because K3-EZ
has no mechanism to determine the filter width, that is information that
you must provide.

From your filter designations it appears that your FL1 is unpopulated
in your configuration and that FL2 and FL3 are populated.  Open the top
cover and check the actual filters installed  This may be a case where
your filters were not set up properly, or in the worst case, if you
ordered the 13 MHz FM filter and it is not installed, you have a "beef"
with Elecraft, and that situation should be promptly resolved.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 8/7/2012 10:51 PM, Stan Grigaliunas wrote:

> I purchased K3/100F in April of this year.  Great little radio.  I began
> to play with the K3_EZ and when I asked to Scan and populate the “K3 info”
> I have noticed that under Main Filter Bandwidth the FL1  is vacant and FL2
> is 6.0, FL3 is 2.70, FL4 and FL5 are vacant.  I thought I purchased the
> KFL3B-FM also.  In checking the invoice, I did find the FM filter listed
> in the invoice.  As of this date, I have not found anyone to talk on 10
> meter FM so I am not sure if it is working or not.  My question is, should
> the FM filter appear on the K3 Info?  If it should, then cracking open the
> box and physically looking for the FM filter would be my next move.  From
> reading the manual, I understood that the widest filters should be in FL1
> position.  Am I all wet?  73, Stan
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