[Elecraft] KX3 ATU "not inst"

[Phil Wheeler]

The obvious fix is to satisfy your KX3's craving 
by adding a KXPA3 :-)

73, Phil

On 4/17/14, 8:22 PM, Tim Tucker wrote:
> All,
>
> Lyle emailed me 2 minutes after I posted this and pointed me in the right
> direction (Thanks Lyle!)  The problem was that at some point I had
> accidentally bumped the setting in the config to tell the radio that I had
> the KXPA100 installed, which I don't.  As soon as I turned that off,
> everything was back to normal.
>
> Tim
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 7:46 PM, VaibhaV Sharma
> <vaibhav at vaibhavsharma.com>wrote:
>
>> On Apr 17, 2014, at 5:53 PM, Stew <stew at ke4yh.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 4/17/2014 8:25 PM, Tim Tucker wrote:
>>>> All of the sudden my KX3's ATU cannot be seen by the radio and I can't
>>>> figure out why.  I went to the menu ATU.X MD and it says "not inst" and
>>>> when I try to change the mode, it just says N/A.  I tried pulling the
>> ATU
>>>> out and put it back in, which didn't help.  It was working just fine
>> since
>>>> the day it was installed until tonight.  Any thoughts before I call
>> support?
>>>> Thx,
>>>> Tim
>>> I just went through the same thing with my KX3. The problem was caused
>> by HRD. If you're using HRD try moving the "Low Pwr Slider" to 12Watts and
>> see if that does the trick. You will see ATU on the KX3's screen. Also the
>> KX3 menu will drop the .X and become just ATU MD.
>>> I really like HRD for logging but it doesn't get along with KX3 very
>> well.
>>
>> I had posted the same issue on this list just two weeks ago. This has been
>> reported to HRD and will be fixed in the next version.
>>
>> If you don’t touch the “high Pwr Slider”, the KX3 works OK with HRD.
>>
>> DM780 hangs when asked to transmit through rig blaster advantage + KX3,
>> but that is a non-KX3 issue.
>>
>> —
>> VaibhaV