I finally figured it out ... I was making a few Qs but the received signals were so so weak ... I made sure ATT was off, had preamp on, checked antennas, plugs, switches, etc and I had written it off that the bands were just really bad. Then I saw it ... some how I had pushed in the RX ANT button. Even though the "RX" icon was displayed on the LCD, I didn't really pay close attention for some reason. I did not have (yet) a separate receive antenna and the signals (what few I could hear) were due to bleeding over. (still logged the Z6 on a couple of bands).
Once before I had a serious receiving problem on the rig I had before my K3 ... on my old trusty FT1000 ... I could hear fine on the sub RX but nothing on the main RX. This went on for almost a month. I retrieved the box to send it off for repair. Taking one last look, I saw the problem, The width control was turned all the way to the to the left on the main RX setting the band width so tight that nothing was getting through. Setting it correctly fixed that WHEW!
And a story I would tell my students ... On the weekends I loved to fix myself a big batch of pancakes from my favorite mix. One morning I was out of mix. I looked in a cook book (this was before the Internet) and saw that I had all the items to make them from scratch and so I did. They tasted awful! ... went out to breakfast. I do a good job of following instructions and couldn't let rest the bad pancakes so the following weekend I decided to make them again. I lined up the ingredients, made them again and once again, BAD. OK, this time instead of estimating the quantities, I measured carefully and scrutinized each ingredient. Again terrible!
So, I wrote a letter to the publisher explaining that there could be a mistake in their wonderful cook book. A couple of weeks later I received a very nice reply: Dear Mr. Furrey ... Thank you for your letter ... ... ... but you should not use baking soda in the place of baking powder ...
Shoot, I didn't know there was a difference. I tried it again and the pancakes were just fine. The moral of this is ... buy the mix.
Seriously, check your knobs and buttons.
73, Mike WA5POK
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