[Elecraft] FW 5.29 TX Calibration Failed [SOLVED]

[Joel Black]

Please disregard my previous email.

I tried the 50 W calibration on my Windows VM and it worked fine.

I’m not sure why the Mac Utility failed (I’m running the latest Mac Utility version), but the Windows version (latest) worked fine.

Thanks,
Joel - W4JBB

> On Jun 27, 2015, at 6:33 AM, Joel Black <joel.b.black at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I’m not operating Field Day this year so this is not a Field Day emergency but I’d still like to get it resolved. I’ll ask here before I call Elecraft next week.
> 
> I upgraded from FW 5.01 to 5.29 this morning. I read in the release notes that if installing FW 5.10 or higher, you should perform the 50 W Tx calibration. Well, I did, about three times. It failed all three times.
> 
> The first time it failed, I got “ERR TXG” message. This was at both 5 W and 50 W. I shut down the transceiver, turn the p/s off, waited about 10 seconds and tried again.
> 
> The second and third times (no transceiver reboot between these tries), I just got a calibration failed from the K3 Utility. This was on both 5 W and 50 W.
> 
> My load is connected to ANT1, but I noticed the utility switching ANT ports during the process.
> 
> Hmm… I may try this on my Windows VM.
> 
> Until Elecraft gets back in and rests a bit from Field Day, would I be safe to just reload what I had and try to calibrate with *that* FW if the Windows version of the utility doesn’t fix it?
> 
> 73,
> Joel - W4JBB