[Elecraft] K3 FIRMWARE UPDATE: MCU 1.87, DSP 1.69 (Finally!)

Stan Rife srife at swbell.net
Sun May 4 20:04:49 EDT 2008


    This is great. With what other brand can you beat up on the 
developers, and see the developers humbled by their own mistakes.

    We understand Lyle. And I thought that was the sunset.

Stan Rife
W5EWA
Houston, TX
K2 SN 4216
K3 SN 0690



Lyle Johnson wrote:
>> ...listening to the K3 on 29.600 FM via my
>> FT-817 the audio sounds a bit distorted or "scratchy" on voice peaks 
>> which
>> suggests that the deviation is too high. I'd like to be able to 
>> adjust this
>> to see if it is or not.
>
> If you see a dull red glow to the west, it is my face turning beet 
> red.  Reasons/excuses aside, the released code has deviation at about 
> 6 kHz instead of 3 kHz.
>
> This is now fixed in my development code.
>
> Meanwhile, to set the deviation using K3 Utility:
>
> Click on the Command Tester tab, in the edit line, type
>
> !dd40;
>
> and deviation should be right.  This only needs to be sent once per 
> session. If you leave the K3 on, the deviation setting should not be 
> changed when you change modes/bands/etc.
>
> Sorry for missing this one, Julian.
>
> 73,
>
> Lyle KK7P
>
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