[Elecraft] Need "Error TxF" help - SOLUTION

[Don Wilhelm]

  Ron,

That would have been difficult to spot via email.  Sometimes it just 
takes looking in the K3 and at the menu settings to figure something 
like that out.  That is one of the frustrations that can be encountered 
when you buy someone else's radio.  Figuring out how they had it set up 
and why is often difficult.
That is why I recommend a complete reading of the manual (especially the 
menu section) for any used radio that one purchases.

Happy Thanksgiving.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 11/25/2010 10:51 AM, n5qq61 at gmail.com wrote:
> Thanks Vic, Don, David and Peter for replies. But yesterday I found
> the root cause. I'll summarize quickly the chain of events as maybe
> some others are blind as me.
>
> 1. I had removed the 6khz filter when I got the radio, as I wasn't
> going to use it.
> 2. The previous user had apparently used the radio in ESSB mode
> indicated by that little "+" sign in the bottom RH corner of the
> screen.
> 3. Config menu item "TX ESSB" was set to ON.
>
> With ESSB mode "ON" the radio over-rides the FLtx SB setting used for
> LSB and USB (which we had all focused on), and shifts to the required
> 6khz filter for ESSB transmit. And without that filter installed and
> enabled in the radio we get the error.
>
> I turned ESSB off, and the USB and LSB work just fine.
>
> Thanks again
> Ron
> N5QQ
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Don Wilhelm<w3fpr at embarqmail.com>  wrote:
>>   TXF error indicates a Transmit Filter error.  Use K3 Utility to examine
>> your filter configuration.  You must select the 2.7 (or 2.8) kHz filter for
>> SSB transmit.
>>
>> 73,
>> Don W3FPR
>>
>> On 11/22/2010 8:19 PM, n5qq61 at gmail.com wrote:
>>> Having trouble with one of my three K3's, sn 02138, generating ERROR
>>> TXF.
>>> CW transmissions are fine but any attempt at SSB transmissions results
>>> in ERROR TXF.
>>> Radio has the stock 5 pole 2.7 filter in FL1
>>> FLtx Sb is set to FL1.
>>> FL1 is enabled ON.
>>> FL1 BW is 2.7.
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