[Elecraft] F/W 1.77 Needs Help

[Roy Morris]

With the radio tuned to WWV and in the REF CAL menu, the SPOT button does not give a tone to zero beat WWV.  I do hear WWV however.
I have also noticed that this current firmware version has drastically cut the voice peaks and therefore does not drive a QRO amplifier nearly as well as it did with the previous firmware.  I am driving the MIC level to 8 and ALC shows 5 bars.  I am not using any compression.  The mic is a GM-5 Heil Goldline in the wide position.  The K3 power output is set to the level for driving the QRO amp to max output.  With these settings I was able to get max QRO output with the 1.75 F/W.  It looks like the 1.77 F/W needs to be tweeked to correct these issues. 
Roy Morris  W4WFB  K3 #323