[Elecraft] P3 bug

[Don Wilhelm]

My suspicion is that the presence or absence of this problem has 
something to do with the K3 to P3 communication when the K3 tells the P3 
that it is finished transmitting and is now in receive mode. If that 
communication is disrupted for any reason, the P3 would not begin its 
read of the IF spectrum.

I am not any expert on how the internals of that communication happens, 
and we may have to wait until the K3/P3 engineers return from "holiday 
vacations" before we can see a response from them.  In other words, wait 
until next week before expecting any meaningful responses.  My input is 
purely a guess.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 12/29/2014 6:30 PM, Mike K2MK wrote:
> Hi Don,
>
> I've had this problem for several years and I only started using QSK this
> year. Further, the problem is also present when using RTTY (AFSK). I don't
> use SSB very often so I have not noticed if the problem is present with that
> mode.
>
> All firmware for the K3, P3, and SVGA are the latest, either production or
> beta.
>
> I run WriteLog for both CW and RTTY. But for the testing I just posted about
> I had no PC applications running and the K3 in test mode.
>
> My K3 settings are generally all default values. If there is something
> specific needed I can look it up and advise.
>
> I checked the refresh rate on the P3 and it was set at 10ms which is per the
> manual. I raised it to 20ms and the problem persists. I raised it 100ms and
> the problem persists.
>
>