[Elecraft] K3 Beta F/W Release 3.19 for FD Ops... In case you missed the announcement

[Tom Hammond]

Just like in "Karate Kid"... Lock ON / Lock OFF... it toggles.

Tom

At 14:41 06/23/2009, you wrote:
>How do you unlock it?  The release notes say to tap 1 in CONFIG:PWR_SET to
>lock, but I don't see a description of how to unlock it there.  I haven't
>tried this...
>
>Dick, K6KR
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net
>[mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Tom Hammond
>Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2009 12:33 PM
>To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
>Subject: [Elecraft] K3 Beta F/W Release 3.19 for FD Ops... In case you
>missed the announcement
>
>Folks:
>
>If you're taking your K3 out to Field Day this year, AND especially
>if you're going to have unfamiliar (I call 'em 'fiddley-fingered')
>ops using the rig on SSB (especially), there is a feature recently
>released in BETA firmware release 3.19 which you might be interested in.
>
>Over the past years, one of the MAJOR(!) problems our Field Day SSB
>stations have had to contend with was uninitiated SSB ops messing
>with the MIC GAIN, COMPRESSION LEVEL, and POWER OUTPUT LEVEL...
>trying to achieve an indicated "100W" on the output meter... Of
>course, you and I know that virtually all built-in power meters in
>just about any rig ('cept the K3) indicate some form of AVERAGE POWER
>OUTPUT, especially on SSB.
>
>Given the ballistics of the needles in the power meter and the
>vagaries of the human voice, when you're actually putting out 100W of
>RF, you're lucky if you see an INDICATED 25W-30W on the
>meter!!!  Some newer rigs offer PEAK OUTPUT indications, but not
>many.  As a result it's (almost) human nature to want to try to TURN
>THE WICK up as far as possible, to get that last milliwatt of RF out
>the back of the rig... UNfortunately, we do this not realizing that,
>in almost all instances, we have managed to mangle our transmitted
>audio so badly that the op on the other end can't make heads or tails
>out of the exchange we're trying to convey.  Our Bad!!!
>
>Enter he K3's most recent feature addition:  MIC / CMP / PWR LOCK...!
>
>Now, you (the K3 owner) can preset the MIC GAIN, COMPRESSION, and
>OUTPUT POWER LEVEL to levels you know are suitable for  your K3 and
>your users, and you can LOCK those three settings so that no amount
>of button twiddling by (most) users will be able to crank them out of range.
>
>You can read the docs on the new release and then download firmware
>v. 3.19 from Elecraft now.
>
>Just a thought.
>
>73,
>
>Tom Hammond   N0SS
>
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