[Elecraft] KRX3 Installation ; ERR VCO 00227

[gdaught6 at stanford.edu]

> >> After installing the latest firmware, I installed the KRX3 that I just  
> >> received yesterday. All went smoothly until I went to Calibrate KsYN3  
> >> (p 43 in KRX3 Manual). I keep getting ERR 00227 VCO. I also received  
> >> the ERR 00228 VCO one time.
> 
> Before calling Elecraft, you could try pulling the synthesizer, check 
> that nothing could be shorting to the shield and then reinstalling it.
> 
> After I installed my KRX3, my original synthesizer was giving me similar 
> error codes. In an act of wild desperation, I pulled it and plugged it 
> back in, adding two washers (one left and one right, if I remember 
> correctly) so that it was tad further away from the shielding. Since 
> then I have not had any more problems.

I encountered a similar problem when calibrating KSYN3 for the subreceiver:

ERR DSE        E 027979

I turned it off, and back on.  I set the sub filters, and redid the auxiliary KSYN3 
calibration.  All went well, and everything seems to work.

A couple of times when I've had problems right after a configuration or calibration 
change, turning the K3 off and back on has cured whatever the problem was.  Nuffin 
like a cold reboot!

73,



George T Daughters, K6GT
CU in the California QSO Party (CQP)
October 3-4, 2009