[Elecraft] [K3] Reconfiguring band boundaries

[n5ge at n5ge.com]

Scanning with the key down is a very bad practice.  Don't do it!

It is your responsibility to keep within your licensed band limits, so I believe
that request is frivoless.

Now if you had a license that allowed you to transmit outside the limits of your
licensed bands such as the members on the Military Afilliate Radio System (MARS)
here in the US it is a valid request which Elecraft will accomodate you with,
but you are still expected to know your licenses band limits, especially when
testing your equipment.

Tom
N5GE
 
On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 11:45:19 +0000, you 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!
>
>73, Thomas 2E0ETT
>K3 # 4208
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