[Elecraft] K-pod question

[Ed Muns]

Hopefully, someone from Elecraft will address this question soon, but
meanwhile here is what I've discovered.

I have two K-Pods, each with firmware 1.02.  When Mike contacted me off-list
about this "D4 always on" question, I replied no, D4 should not be on.  It
has never been on in my units.

Then, I updated to K-Pod Production firmware version 1.09 today and guess
what?  Now, my D4 LEDs were on all the time.  Moreover, the K-Pod command to
turn them off didn't work.  In fact, none of the K-Pod commands worked.

I had the latest Production MCU/FP/DSP firmware installed so it never
occurred to me that maybe the Beta firmware was required.  Nonetheless, I
installed the latest Beta firmware and the D4 LED extinguished as soon as
Beta FP 1.26 installed.  And, now all the K-Pod commands work again.

So, if (1) you are a recent recipient of a K-Pod with 1.09 firmware, or (2)
have updated your K-Pod to firmware version 1.09, you might need to load the
Beta MCU 5.54/FP 1.26/DPS 2.88 firmware if the issues described here concern
you.  As far as I could tell, all other aspects of the K-Pod worked fine
with K-Pod 1.09 and the current Production K3 firmware versions.

Ed W0YK
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Mike VE3WDM asked:

Good afternoon, I just connected the K-pod to my K3 for the first time after
updating the firmware to the latest. I noticed that D4 is always on just
wondering if this is normal?