[Elecraft] K3 Setup Failing

[Brian F. Wruble]

No, unfortunately.



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

*70 is the new 40.*
*
Mail: 1107 Key Plaza, PMB 447 Key West, FL 33040-4077
Summers: P.O.Box 57, 7400 Augustine Herman Highway, Georgetown, MD 21930
eFax  305.768.0278







On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 6:02 PM, James kvochick <jameskvochick at me.com>wrote:

> Is your transmitter in "tx test" mode?
>
> Jim WB8AZP
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On May 25, 2013, at 5:58 PM, "Brian F. Wruble" <bwruble at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
> > *70 is the new 40.*
> > *
> > Mail: 1107 Key Plaza, PMB 447 Key West, FL 33040-4077
> > Summers: P.O.Box 57, 7400 Augustine Herman Highway, Georgetown, MD 21930
> > eFax  305.768.0278
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