[Elecraft] P3 - still in trouble with new firmware

Stephen Prior eastbrantwood at gmail.com
Mon Aug 3 18:26:40 EDT 2015


I reported at the time (January I think) that the SVGA NB status wasn't
being saved.  That appears to be still the case here.

73 Stephen G4SJP

On 3 August 2015 at 22:53, Tom <tomb18 at videotron.ca> wrote:

> Hi,
> Funny thing, the SVGA noise blanker and a number of other items were added
> in a January release of the beta software.  I recall it was working, but
> there has been no production release since then except for this new beta
> version.
> I hope that with the new K3S there is a little more commitment to the P3.
> 73 Tom
> From: Guy Olinger K2AV
> Sent: Monday, August 03, 2015 5:39 PM
> To: Tom
> Cc: Dan Maase AC6DM ; Elecraft Reflector
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] P3 - still in trouble with new firmware
>
> Will add my name to list about no NB on SVGA.  I didn't know that was
> supposed to be working. Additionally bringing up the NB Level menu entry
> blue screens the SVGA display and shows Tx/Rx Data Font: 0 in the upper
> left hand corner.
>
> My ancient data processing bug instincts scream mismatched data position
> definitions, but that that's just from an old systems design crank :>)
>
> Did the firmware files get back leveled or something?  This really looks
> like something that would have been fixed in house before public release.
>
> 73, Guy
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 5:17 PM, Tom <tomb18 at videotron.ca> wrote:
>
>   Hi,
>   There seems to be some issues with this release of the firmware.  I have
> the same issues as the others with all of the correct versions of the
> software (1.24 and 1.5).  I also performed a parameter reset.
>   In addition to the issues reported here, the noise blanker no longer
> works on the SVGA, and the per band settings of the noise blanker are not
> updated on the SVGA display as you change bands.
>   I guess there should be another iteration?
>   73 Tom
>   va2fsq.com
>
>
>
>   -----Original Message----- From: Dan Maase AC6DM via Elecraft
>   Sent: Monday, August 03, 2015 4:43 PM
>   To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
>   Subject: Re: [Elecraft] P3 - still in trouble with new firmware
>
>   Stephen:
>   Posted this to the wrong thread earlier.
>
>   Have you loaded the new SVGA firmware 1.24?  You need this as well as
> the P3
>   firmware 1.50 for the SVGA to function correctly.
>   I've installed both and have not observed the problems reported.
>
>   See Paul Saffren - N6HZ message on FW loading sent today.
>
>   73,
>   Dan AC6DM
>
>
>
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