[Elecraft] K3 FPF Load failed

[Deni F5VJC]

Yes scary indeed!

I have never yet had a download fail, Beta or otherwise, but, I always hold
my breath until I have a working K3 again!

I dread the day this does fail and I have a dumb black box on my hands.

Is there a quick route out of of this nightmare scenario?

I have seen written " Dont Panic" but what exactly is the recommended
procedure when a new download screws your superbly honed K3?

73, Deni
F5VJC





Julian, G4ILO wrote:
> 
> It has been about 3 weeks since I last switched on my K3 and when I did so
> just now, VFO A said "FPF Load" and VFO B said "Pending". It was working
> OK when I last switched it off.
> 
> I decided that the best thing to do would be to load the latest beta
> firmware, which was what I was going to do anyway, but the K3 Utility
> reported:
> 
> Sending firmware file hfpf0002.hex to FPF
> 21:40:28 Send FPF firmware failed at load address x7b1f
> 21:40:28 FPF program load failed
> 21:40:28 Ready
> 
> The receiver appears to be working and I can tune the VFO, although I have
> no idea where I am as the VFO display just reads FPF Load / Pending.
> 
> While typing this I managed to clear the problem by pressing Band Down
> until I got to the lower bands, when I saw that frequencies were appearing
> again. When I press Band Up frequencies are now appearing, but when I move
> up to 21MHz or any higher band VFO B briefly displays ERR PL1 before
> showing the frequency.
> 
> Having got to this point, I tried to upload the firmware again and this
> time it appears to have been successful. So what went wrong? The previous
> firmware was, I think, 2.13 beta. All seems OK now but it was a scary
> moment that I could have done without.
> 

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