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Alan Sewell N5NA

Scratched off screen printing on a week old KX3?

Sounds like a bad paint job. If it were mine I'd contact Elecraft and
request a new front panel. None of the lettering should scratch off so
easily.

73, Alan N5NA

On 2/17/2015 1:33 PM, [hidden email] wrote:

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> I was moving my hand from the keyboard to the radio and brushed my
> fingernail against the yellow word tune before realizing that my finger was
> too low to get to the band switches. I managed to scratch the U out of the
> yellow word tune on the front of my case.
>
> Can I expect the rest of the yellow functions to just rub off the face of
> the case?
>
> So far this is my only disappointment in an otherwise excellent radio...
>
> 72,
> Joshua Gould
> K8WXA
> EM89pn
>
> KX3# 7465
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wayne burdick

Re: Scratched off screen printing on a week old KX3?

Administrator

That is correct.

73,
Wayne
N6KR

On Feb 17, 2015, at 11:49 AM, Alan Sewell N5NA <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Sounds like a bad paint job. If it were mine I'd contact Elecraft and request a new front panel. None of the lettering should scratch off so easily.
>
> 73, Alan N5NA
>
>
> On 2/17/2015 1:33 PM, [hidden email] wrote:
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>> Message: 3
>> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 11:14:59 -0500
>> From: Joshua Gould <[hidden email]>
>> To: Elecraft List <[hidden email]>
>> Subject: [Elecraft] Scratched off screen printing on a week old KX3?
>> Message-ID:
>> <[hidden email]>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
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>> I was moving my hand from the keyboard to the radio and brushed my
>> fingernail against the yellow word tune before realizing that my finger was
>> too low to get to the band switches. I managed to scratch the U out of the
>> yellow word tune on the front of my case.
>>
>> Can I expect the rest of the yellow functions to just rub off the face of
>> the case?
>>
>> So far this is my only disappointment in an otherwise excellent radio...
>>
>> 72,
>> Joshua Gould
>> K8WXA
>> EM89pn
>>
>> KX3# 7465
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>>
>>
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Michael Walker

Re: Scratched off screen printing on a week old KX3?

Instead of complaining here, have you thought about discussing it with
Elecraft?

No one here can fix your concern, but I am sure they can.

Mike va3mw

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 4:09 PM, Wayne Burdick <[hidden email]> wrote:

> That is correct.
>
> 73,
> Wayne
> N6KR
>
> On Feb 17, 2015, at 11:49 AM, Alan Sewell N5NA <[hidden email]>
> wrote:
>
> > Sounds like a bad paint job. If it were mine I'd contact Elecraft and
> request a new front panel. None of the lettering should scratch off so
> easily.
> >
> > 73, Alan N5NA
> >
> >
> > On 2/17/2015 1:33 PM, [hidden email] wrote:
> >> ------------------------------
> >>
> >> Message: 3
> >> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 11:14:59 -0500
> >> From: Joshua Gould <[hidden email]>
> >> To: Elecraft List <[hidden email]>
> >> Subject: [Elecraft] Scratched off screen printing on a week old KX3?
> >> Message-ID:
> >> <
> [hidden email]>
> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
> >>
> >> I was moving my hand from the keyboard to the radio and brushed my
> >> fingernail against the yellow word tune before realizing that my finger
> was
> >> too low to get to the band switches. I managed to scratch the U out of
> the
> >> yellow word tune on the front of my case.
> >>
> >> Can I expect the rest of the yellow functions to just rub off the face
> of
> >> the case?
> >>
> >> So far this is my only disappointment in an otherwise excellent radio...
> >>
> >> 72,
> >> Joshua Gould
> >> K8WXA
> >> EM89pn
> >>
> >> KX3# 7465
> >>
> >>
> >> ------------------------------
> >>
> >>
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Oliver Dröse

Re: Scratched off screen printing on a week old KX3?

Isn't Wayne one of the Elecraft principals? *rotfl* ;-)

73, Olli - DH8BQA

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Am 17.02.2015 um 22:32 schrieb Michael Walker:

> Instead of complaining here, have you thought about discussing it with
> Elecraft?
>
> No one here can fix your concern, but I am sure they can.
>
> Mike va3mw
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 4:09 PM, Wayne Burdick <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
>> That is correct.
>>
>> 73,
>> Wayne
>> N6KR
>>
>> On Feb 17, 2015, at 11:49 AM, Alan Sewell N5NA <[hidden email]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Sounds like a bad paint job. If it were mine I'd contact Elecraft and
>> request a new front panel. None of the lettering should scratch off so
>> easily.
>>> 73, Alan N5NA