K3 s/n 1194

[K8RDD]

I guess I spoke to soon. All went together very well and seemed to work fine. After a good nights sleep I woke up and  moved the radio off of my repair bench on to my radio bench and hooked it up. All seemed ok until I went to 10 meters. I started hearing static crashes like I was on 80 or 160. I unhooked the antenna and they were still there. Very random. Up to an S7 sometimes. All mode only on 10 and 12 meters. Yep I used a wrist strap and a mat. I brought them home from work. I have a nice Speidel stainless wrist strap. Probably don't make them anymore! USA made! Anyway K3 rf board prints sheet 2 everybody. The noise goes away if I open W1 jumper by pulling the module. I left the module out and jumped W1 and it comes back. If I pull W3 pa bypass, (I believe this is the small pc board I pulled when I installed the 100w PA) the noise is still there.I pulled the 100w pa and the lp board and it's still there. Looks like it may be a problem around the t-r switch on the rf board. The noise is totally random. Flexing, freezing or heating seems to do nothing. It may be ok for 5 minutes and then do it for 5 minutes. I've emailed support. Any others have any ideas?
Randy
K8RDD
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Is the KXV3 installed? If so have you tried pulling it?

Bob NW8L

On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 8:30 AM, Randy Downs <[hidden email]> wrote:

> I guess I spoke to soon. All went together very well and seemed to work fine. After a good nights sleep I woke up and  moved the radio off of my repair bench on to my radio bench and hooked it up. All seemed ok until I went to 10 meters. I started hearing static crashes like I was on 80 or 160. I unhooked the antenna and they were still there. Very random. Up to an S7 sometimes. All mode only on 10 and 12 meters. Yep I used a wrist strap and a mat. I brought them home from work. I have a nice Speidel stainless wrist strap. Probably don't make them anymore! USA made! Anyway K3 rf board prints sheet 2 everybody. The noise goes away if I open W1 jumper by pulling the module. I left the module out and jumped W1 and it comes back. If I pull W3 pa bypass, (I believe this is the small pc board I pulled when I installed the 100w PA) the noise is still there.I pulled the 100w pa and the lp board and it's still there. Looks like it may be a problem around the t-r switch on the rf board. The noise is totally random. Flexing, freezing or heating seems to do nothing. It may be ok for 5 minutes and then do it for 5 minutes. I've emailed support. Any others have any ideas?
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