[Elecraft] K3/P3 tuning oddities
Alan Bloom
n1al at sonic.net
Mon Jun 30 20:16:53 EDT 2014
Don,
> ... as I tuned the P3 waterfall started
> shifting as I tuned. I have the P3 setup to be fix track
Check the FixMode menu selection. It sounds like it might be set to
"Slide".
Alan N1AL
On 06/30/2014 11:40 AM, ac2ev wrote:
> Saturday and Sunday my K3 and P3 did a couple odd things.
>
> First at around 14.268KHz as I tuned the P3 waterfall started
> shifting as I tuned. I have the P3 setup to be fix track? Where the
> green column moves rather the the whole display. When it got to
> 14.268 it acted like it switched modes but it was constantly shifting
> right as I tuned. I couldn't "catch up" to area if activity. If I
> went high or low enough below this frequency everything went back to
> normal. Tried power off/power on no change. I'll try and see if it
> does it tonight.
>
> The second thing that happened was on 40m I picked up a QSO and the
> P3 and K3 showed I was tuning up and down but that station would not
> go away. So I don't think the K3 was actually changing frequency. I
> tried switching to VFO B, same station. I don't have a sub receiver.
> Powering off and on seemed to fix it.
>
> There was a third anomaly that looked like a 15KHz wide signal on the
> P3 but I couldn't tune to it. It may be related to problem 1 above.
>
> Of note: the problem existed before and after I updated to latest
> firmware. Yes I updated my firmware in the middle of fieldday.
> Operating 1D so no other transmitters in immediate area.
>
> 73 AC2EV - Don
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