Power on Banner reappears

[Dave and Alice Billheimer]

The power-on banner in my KX3 comes on correctly, but it also reappears from time-to-time.
I suspected my power supply, but have tried other power sources and the same thing happens.
It usually happens at times when the bands are extra noisy.  Any ideas?

Dave W1GQL
58 years of CW
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[Don Wilhelm-4]

Dave,

That would indicate that the power is being momentarily disconnected
from your KX3.
Wiggle the power connector and see if that induces it.
If so, there could be one of two things wrong (maybe more, but these 2
occur to me).
1) You are using a 2.5mm power plug - the proper size is 2.1mm.
2) If you have an earlier KX3, the power jack may not have been glued to
the board and one or more of the connections to the solder pads may have
broken loose.  (I don't know the serial number when the gluing was started).

73,
Don W3FPR

On 6/11/2013 3:09 PM, Dave and Alice Billheimer wrote:

> The power-on banner in my KX3 comes on correctly, but it also reappears from time-to-time.
> I suspected my power supply, but have tried other power sources and the same thing happens.
> It usually happens at times when the bands are extra noisy.  Any ideas?
>
> Dave W1GQL
> 58 years of CW
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[Jesper Henriksen]

I've experienced this a few times when in CW or a data mode mode with
decoding enabled. The banner is shown at the beginning of the decoded
text and clears as the text scrolls, so I figured the banner was simply
prepended to the same buffer/stream that the decoder writes to. It only
happens once per startup.

--
Jesper Henriksen

On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 03:09:24PM -0400, Dave and Alice Billheimer wrote:

> The power-on banner in my KX3 comes on correctly, but it also reappears from time-to-time.
> I suspected my power supply, but have tried other power sources and the same thing happens.
> It usually happens at times when the bands are extra noisy.  Any ideas?
>
> Dave W1GQL
> 58 years of CW
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