[Elecraft] [K3] Reconfiguring band boundaries

[David Ferrington, M0XDF]

Strangely enough, most of us wanted to expand the transmission range - especially those in Oz etc where they can transmitted way outside our limits.
There is software available from Elecraft on request to do that (for MARS).
73 de M0XDF, K3 #174, P3 #108

On 17 Mar 2011, at 11:45, Thomas Horsten wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I sent a question about this to Elecraft support, but I didn't get a
> reply so let me try the community..
> 
> I've got a K3, serial no. 4208, and I would like to change it's band
> settings so that it will match my UK licence. Currently, the "band
> end" limitations are not correct for my region.
> 
> For example, it will transmit on the section of the 80m band above
> 3800 that's not allocated in the UK, and the same for 40m at 7200 and
> above.
> 
> So I'd like to change the band limitations to lock the unallocated
> sections out and avoid accidentally transmitting outside the licenced
> bands. For example, I sometimes hit "TUNE" and scan up and down the
> band to make sure that the SWR is reasonable across the entire band,
> in this mode the VFO isn't displayed, but if I hit a programmed-in
> band limit it stops by itself, but this doesn't prevent me from
> transmitting out-of-band at 40m and 80m for example, because the upper
> limit is not correct for my location and licence.
> 
> Is there a way to reprogram this? It seems to me it should be a simple
> firmware tweak.
> 
> Any help/pointers would be appreciated!