[Elecraft] K3 Setup Failing

[Brian F. Wruble]

Hi guys,

I am in a fight with my just assembled K3.  I have gone through all the
steps, and everything worked. However, I could not get the sub-receiver to
receive anything --- just noise.

So I figured I would put that aside for awhile and try transmitting into a
dummy load.  I had already run the TX gain Calibration steps at 5watts and
50 watts, both with no problem.

I found that though I I can hear my audio (sounding good) in the XMIT
Monitor, I had little to no indication of RF out, either on the rig's meter
or an external meter.

So I reran XMIT gain calibration with this result:

OS Version 6.1 Build 7601 Windows 7/Windows Server 2008 R2
K3 MCU revision 04.67. RS-232 speed 4800 bit/s.
Starting 5 watt calibration
Calibrating at 1.900 MHz
Calibration power settled at "  0.0 W ;"
Elapsed time: 5 seconds
Tx Gain calibration failed because transmit power did not reach the
expected value


I saved my configuration, then did a reset.  The result was the same.  I
reloaded my configuration file, result the same.  The 50 watt test gives a
similar error.

No smoke by the way.

What have I done?

Tnx de Brian W3BW


*Brian F. Wruble, C.F.A.

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