P3 Vfo Blips
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Hello gang,
I have a number of blips (birdies) surrounding my VFO A display line on the P3 that faithfully follow it as I tune up and down. They are more visible on 40 meters but more down in the noise on other bands. Is this normal behavior…to be expected? Pete WK8S ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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I saw this for the first time a few weeks ago. Check your BNC connections - just open and close the twist on connector, maybe even pull is off and reinsert. That killed my birdies. It's happened a few times.
Whether or not this is a common problem, I don't know. God Bless & Best 73! Jack - WE5ST ________________________________ From: Pete Meier <[hidden email]> To: [hidden email] Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 7:17 AM Subject: [Elecraft] P3 Vfo Blips Hello gang, I have a number of blips (birdies) surrounding my VFO A display line on the P3 that faithfully follow it as I tune up and down. They are more visible on 40 meters but more down in the noise on other bands. Is this normal behavior…to be expected? Pete WK8S ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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A drop of DeOxit on it [shield and center pin, both ends] and several
removal/insertions cured mine. Also, make sure the P3 chassis screws are tight, and the chassis is directly bonded to the K3. I may put a ground post on my P3 to take it to the ground bus right behind the rigs. The other note is that I originally ran without the K3 IF Level mod, and when I calibrated the P3 and K3 S-Meter with my service monitor, I ended up with fairly high gain in the P3, and quite a few anomalous blips and such. Doing the mod got the gain back to normal and all is well. 73 Fred K6DGW On 8/1/2012 3:08 AM, Jack Berry wrote: > I saw this for the first time a few weeks ago. Check your BNC connections - just open and close the twist on connector, maybe even pull is off and reinsert. That killed my birdies. It's happened a few times. > > Whether or not this is a common problem, I don't know. > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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Looked on Amazon and there are eleventy-eight kinds of Deoxit.
Which is the right one? On Jul 31, 2012, at 11:19 PM, FredJensen <[hidden email]> wrote: > A drop of DeOxit on it [shield and center pin, both ends] and several > removal/insertions cured mine. Also, make sure the P3 chassis screws > are tight, and the chassis is directly bonded to the K3. I may put a > ground post on my P3 to take it to the ground bus right behind the rigs. > > The other note is that I originally ran without the K3 IF Level mod, and > when I calibrated the P3 and K3 S-Meter with my service monitor, I ended > up with fairly high gain in the P3, and quite a few anomalous blips and > such. Doing the mod got the gain back to normal and all is well. > > 73 > > Fred K6DGW > > On 8/1/2012 3:08 AM, Jack Berry wrote: >> I saw this for the first time a few weeks ago. Check your BNC connections - just open and close the twist on connector, maybe even pull is off and reinsert. That killed my birdies. It's happened a few times. >> >> Whether or not this is a common problem, I don't know. >> > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[hidden email] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html |
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