[Elecraft] 5 watt calibration fails - help

[Alfred Frugoli]

Forgot to mention in my original post, the rig was shipped with the most
recent firmware already installed (MCU 3.79/DSP 2.54)*.*
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*73 de Al, KE1FO

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On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Alfred Frugoli <ke1fo at arrl.net> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> Putting together K3 SN 4094, and running into the following problem when
> trying to complete the 5 watt transmitter calibration procedure from within
> the K3 Utility.  Please see text below for the response from the K3
> Utility.  Any thoughts?  As you can see, I tried running the calibration
> process a few times, and each time I reached the same result - although in
> different places.
>
> Starting 5 watt calibration
> Calibrating at 1.900 MHz
> Calibrating at 3.750 MHz
> Calibrating at 5.366 MHz
> IsSamplingComplete: Unexpected response "DS@@@@1\xB0>I\x90\x80;" to "DS;"
> State 153
> Calibration power settled at "  5.2 W ;"
> 5 watt calibration failed
> Elapsed time: 12 seconds
> Starting 5 watt calibration
> Calibrating at 1.900 MHz
> Calibrating at 3.750 MHz
> IsSamplingComplete: Unexpected response "DS@@@@1\xB0>I\x80\x80;" to "DS;"
> State 153
> Calibration power settled at "  5.2 W ;"
> 5 watt calibration failed
> Elapsed time: 11 seconds
> Starting 5 watt calibration
> Calibrating at 1.900 MHz
> IsSamplingComplete: Unexpected response "DS@@@@1\xB0>I\x80\x80;" to "DS;"
> State 153
> Calibration power settled at "  5.2 W ;"
> 5 watt calibration failed
> Elapsed time: 6 seconds
> Starting 5 watt calibration
> Calibrating at 1.900 MHz
> Calibrating at 3.750 MHz
> IsSamplingComplete: Unexpected response "DS@@@@1\xB0>I\x80\x80;" to "DS;"
> State 153
> Calibration power settled at "  5.2 W ;"
> 5 watt calibration failed
> Elapsed time: 12 seconds
>
> 73 de Al, KE1FO
>
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