If that local ham is sufficiently local, why not take your KX3 to his
location and connect it to his antenna to see if your KX3 is working
properly.
The Buddipole is not the most efficient antenna and may be the cause of
not hearing any signals. The SWR only says it is tuned, but that says
nothing about its radiation efficiency.
If you want to try resetting to factory defaults, that is in the manual
(look in the index to find the page).
Be aware that it also resets the calibration data, so be sure you have a
saved configuration file before doing the EEINIT. Of course, that saved
configuration file should be from a time when the KX3 was known to be
working properly.
73,
Don W3FPR
On 2/28/2017 3:15 AM, Robert Gusek wrote:
> Hey everyone, I'm trying to get back into digital modes and got out my KX3.
>
> I have it hooked up to a buddipole antenna, and the tuner is getting a 1:1 swr, but for some reason I'm not hearing or picking up any signals.
>
> All I'm getting is static. One time on Sunday I picked up a psk exchange between someone here in NC and Cuba, but after that I'm picking up nothing.
>
> A local ham helped me try and test things, by getting on the same frequency I was (14.070.150) and he was hearing lots of traffic, but I picked up nothing either listening straight through speakers or headphones, or ham radio deluxe using my signalink.
>
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