[Elecraft] F/W 1.77 Needs Help

[David Ferrington, M0XDF]

this has been reported as a bug in the latest firmware - 1.75 works if  
you can revert (contact me to find out how)
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On 19 Mar 2008, at 20:01, Roy Morris wrote:

> 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
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