[Elecraft] K3 New fw loader

[Joe Subich, W4TV]

> Perhaps if we knew which S/N's are involved that might also 
> help unravel what's going on.
> 
> Mine is #1129.  Another reported his #980 had it.   W3FPR is 
> seeing it also.  I believe he has an even older K3.

I don't understand it either ... I've been TRYING to duplicate 
the symptoms and can't make the rig come up in anything except 
FSK D when that's where it was set.  S/N is 622 but I've heard 
of "failures" with both higher and lower s/n. 

73, 

   ... Joe, W4TV 
 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Alsop [mailto:alsopb at nc.rr.com] 
> Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 6:36 AM
> To: lists at subich.com
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 New fw loader
> 
> 
> Joe,
> 
> There has to be a common failure mode for those of us 
> experiencing this.
> 
> Rumors have it that some EEPROMs are slow to write for series 
> of boards.
>  
> Perhaps if we knew which S/N's are involved that might also 
> help unravel 
> what's going on.
> 
> Mine is #1129.  Another reported his #980 had it.   W3FPR is 
> seeing it 
> also.  I believe he has an even older K3.
> 
> The odd thing is that whatever triggered this,  can't be 
> cured by going 
> back to older FW versions and older FW loaders.
> It's like an EEPROM memory bit is bad or not being written on 
> shutdown.. 
>   Behaves like what you get when turning off power supply rather than 
> the K3 power switch.
> 
> A mystery indeed.
> 
> 73 de Brian/K3KO
> 
> Joe Subich, W4TV wrote:
> 
> >Strange ... I'm also running 3.10 loaded with the new utility.
> >I loaded 3.10, DSP1 2.15, DSP2, 2.15, FP 1.00 and the data 
> >tables twice.  Power was cycled power between the two uploads.  
> >
> >I have not checked the second K3 ... it's offline at the moment
> >waiting for me to make a couple of the updates. 
> >
> >73,
> >
> >   ... Joe, W4TV
> > 
> >