OT: antenna work (try this URL) - hurry they are taking them down quickly

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[Phil and Christina]

I need some advice.  I had the K3 on this afternoon and tuned to the low end
of 20M (about 14.001x).  I had been going into and out of the shack with the
radio in receive mode.  I went into the shack and heard a continuous string
of dots.  I tried to tune the signal, only to realize that it was my
sidetone (the watt meter in the SB200 was bouncing).  I had to turn off the
power supply to stop it.  When I powered it back on, the ERR KEY message was
displayed.  I looked it up and saw that the key line must be active at power
on.  I disconnected the Bencher paddle, and the ERR message went away.  It
appears that the dot contact on the Bencher had changed enough to make it
touch.  I adjusted the paddle, and that problem went away.

The problem now is that on 20M, keying the radio gives a HI SWR message and
the SWR indicates 99.9:1.  This is with either the 20M antenna or a dummy
load.  The other bands appear to be fine.  I fear that I may have fried
something in the 20M output circuit.  Any suggestions?  Help please!

73,

Phil, NS7P

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[Grant Youngman]

Obvious suggestion, but did you check antenna port assignment on 20M?  Could you have inadvertently changed it from ANT1 to ANT2 or something on that order?

Grant/NQ5T


On Sep 18, 2010, at 5:33 PM, Phil and Christina wrote:

>
> The problem now is that on 20M, keying the radio gives a HI SWR message and
> the SWR indicates 99.9:1.  This is with either the 20M antenna or a dummy
> load.  The other bands appear to be fine.  I fear that I may have fried
> something in the 20M output circuit.  Any suggestions?  Help please!
>

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[Phil and Christina]

Hi all,

Thank you for the suggestion about ANT2.  I had inadvertently switched 20M
over to the unterminated ANT2 connector.  All is well now.  Assuming I don't
get written up for transmitting 20 or 30 minutes of 25 wpm dots at 14.001
MHz (hi).  I had the Bencher contacts locked down tightly, but I guess I had
the spacing too close for the paddle's tolerances (it was cool in the
shack).

73,

Phil, NS7P

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Hammond [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2010 3:57 PM
To: Phil and Christina
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Problem with my K3


Phil:

Any chance you might have, by accident, switched to an empty ANT2...???

73,

Tom  N0SS

At 17:33 09/18/2010, you wrote:
>I need some advice.  I had the K3 on this afternoon and tuned to the low
end
>of 20M (about 14.001x).  I had been going into and out of the shack with
the
>radio in receive mode.  I went into the shack and heard a continuous string
>of dots.  I tried to tune the signal, only to realize that it was my
>sidetone (the watt meter in the SB200 was bouncing).  I had to turn off the
>power supply to stop it.  When I powered it back on, the ERR KEY message
was
>displayed.  I looked it up and saw that the key line must be active at
power

>on.  I disconnected the Bencher paddle, and the ERR message went away.  It
>appears that the dot contact on the Bencher had changed enough to make it
>touch.  I adjusted the paddle, and that problem went away.
>
>The problem now is that on 20M, keying the radio gives a HI SWR message and
>the SWR indicates 99.9:1.  This is with either the 20M antenna or a dummy
>load.  The other bands appear to be fine.  I fear that I may have fried
>something in the 20M output circuit.  Any suggestions?  Help please!
>
>73,
>
>Phil, NS7P
>
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[Carl Clawson]

A fairly common occurrence.

Those of us with cats or small children get in the habit of clicking off the
VOX any time we walk away from the radio. But it's not a bad idea for
everyone.

Kids are grown up now, still got the cat.

73 -- Carl WS7L

> Assuming I don't get written up for transmitting
> 20 or 30 minutes of 25 wpm dots at 14.001 MHz (hi).

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[Phil and Christina]

Thanks again for all of the suggestions.  The K3 came through fine.  Just a
bit of a red face for me. ;)

I will still be on the net tomorrow.

73,
Phil, NS7P

-----Original Message-----
From: Grant Youngman [mailto:[hidden email]]
Sent: Saturday, September 18, 2010 4:11 PM
To: Elecraft Reflector
Cc: Phil and Christina
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Problem with my K3


Obvious suggestion, but did you check antenna port assignment on 20M?  Could
you have inadvertently changed it from ANT1 to ANT2 or something on that
order?

Grant/NQ5T


On Sep 18, 2010, at 5:33 PM, Phil and Christina wrote:

>
> The problem now is that on 20M, keying the radio gives a HI SWR message
and
> the SWR indicates 99.9:1.  This is with either the 20M antenna or a dummy
> load.  The other bands appear to be fine.  I fear that I may have fried
> something in the 20M output circuit.  Any suggestions?  Help please!
>

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[Guy, K2AV]

Once a cleaning lady pushed a book against a microphone switch on a two
meter rig, and it keyed up the 5 state Mt. Beacon, NY 146.97 repeater for
nearly 20 hours before it was located with direction finding gear.  What was
amazing was that it didn't set the room on fire.  The door to the shack was
closed to the room as was its window, and when we went upstairs with the
very red-faced ham and opened the door, the temp was easily 120 degrees
inside.  The 2 meter transmitter was a converted tube type mobile phone that
ran nearly 100 watts to a ceramic transmitting tube.  His friends found out
about it because some of them heard us on an alternate wide coverage
repeater chasing it down and showed up as we were leaving.  Probably never
lived it down.

A friend in the Raleigh area with a good signal on 80 meters in the
Sweepstakes, left the rig to get a snack, but forgot to turn off his auto-CQ
which auto resumed.  While in the kitchen he decided to take a nap.  Lot of
people answered his CQ but got no reply.  He claims that he just sat back
down to the rig a half hour later and started working people.  It took a
bunch of us in the local club to "convince" him that he had really done it.
I'm still not sure he really believed us.

Stuff happens.

73, Guy.



On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 8:08 PM, Carl Clawson <[hidden email]>wrote:

> A fairly common occurrence.
>
> Those of us with cats or small children get in the habit of clicking off
> the
> VOX any time we walk away from the radio. But it's not a bad idea for
> everyone.
>
> Kids are grown up now, still got the cat.
>
> 73 -- Carl WS7L
>
> > Assuming I don't get written up for transmitting
> > 20 or 30 minutes of 25 wpm dots at 14.001 MHz (hi).
>
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