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John Kountz

My K3's 10 meter band now functions

Thanks o all of those replying with serious considerations. In reviewing the responses, one of you hit the nail on the head: a dumb operator error occurred, the wrong antenna had been selected for the 10 meter band. I suppose most knew, antenna selection is couple to band a factor I had forgotten.) How this misalignment happened I'll have to attribute to a button push long forgotten.
Again, thanks top all and winning scores regardless of the contest,.
73
John Kountz, WO1S

J Kountz

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Bill Frantz

Re: My K3's 10 meter band now functions

I have burned myself several times this way. It got better when
I got better light on the radio and was no longer tempted to
select buttons by feel.

It might be useful to be able to save the states of all the
buttons/menu settings/etc. on the radio and easily get back to
them. Being able to switch back and forth would be nice too.
Icing on the cake would be having a way to show the differences
between the two sets.

73 Bill AE6JV

On 12/16/20 at 1:08 PM, [hidden email] (John Kountz) wrote:

>How this misalignment happened I'll have to attribute to a button push long forgotten.

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Re: My K3's 10 meter band now functions

There is, it's called a saved configuration and it's been available
since day one via the K3 Utility.

Regards,

Mike VP8NO

> It might be useful to be able to save the states of all the buttons/menu
> settings/etc. on the radio and easily get back to them. Being able to
> switch back and forth would be nice too. Icing on the cake would be
> having a way to show the differences between the two sets.
>
> 73 Bill AE6JV
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David Olean

Re: My K3's 10 meter band now functions

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That happened to me here on ten meters a few years ago. I had just built
up a good ten meter station and W1UE came up to operate it. He had a K3
at his house, so I never interfered with any of his operating
techniques, but he was complaining about the poor propagation all day on
Saturday. He left at sunset and I went back to the house to find a few e
mails from friends saying that they had called and had a very hard time
getting through and that my receiver was deaf. After I had dinner, I
went back to the shack with test gear to test the receiver sensitivity.
That is when I found he had the wrong antenna set with the RX push
button. He spent the entire day making contacts with 40 dB of
attenuation in the line. When W1UE showed up on Sunday he worked all
the folks he missed the day before and we had a good laugh (at our
expense). We still chuckle over that weekend! We don't make that
mistake now.

Dave K1WHS

On 12/16/2020 1:08 PM, John Kountz wrote:

> Thanks o all of those replying with serious considerations. In reviewing the responses, one of you hit the nail on the head: a dumb operator error occurred, the wrong antenna had been selected for the 10 meter band. I suppose most knew, antenna selection is couple to band a factor I had forgotten.) How this misalignment happened I'll have to attribute to a button push long forgotten.
> Again, thanks top all and winning scores regardless of the contest,.
> 73
> John Kountz, WO1S
>
> J Kountz
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W3LPL

Re: My K3's 10 meter band now functions

Hi Dave,

I train all of my W3LPL operators to always check their receiver sensitivity
before a contest and every time they change to a different band or a
different radio. This is an essential skill and habit that should be ingrained
into every successful contester and DXer.

Simply pushing the K3 attenuator button is enough. If the noise level
doesn't drop dramatically there's a problem!

73
Frank
W3LPL

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From: "David Olean" <[hidden email]>
To: "John Kountz" <[hidden email]>, [hidden email]
Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2020 7:00:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] My K3's 10 meter band now functions

That happened to me here on ten meters a few years ago. I had just built
up a good ten meter station and W1UE came up to operate it. He had a K3
at his house, so I never interfered with any of his operating
techniques, but he was complaining about the poor propagation all day on
Saturday. He left at sunset and I went back to the house to find a few e
mails from friends saying that they had called and had a very hard time
getting through and that my receiver was deaf. After I had dinner, I
went back to the shack with test gear to test the receiver sensitivity.
That is when I found he had the wrong antenna set with the RX push
button. He spent the entire day making contacts with 40 dB of
attenuation in the line. When W1UE showed up on Sunday he worked all
the folks he missed the day before and we had a good laugh (at our
expense). We still chuckle over that weekend! We don't make that
mistake now.

Dave K1WHS

On 12/16/2020 1:08 PM, John Kountz wrote:

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