[Elecraft] KX3 Trans gain calibration issue

[Vic Rosenthal 4X6GP/K2VCO]

Mike,
I don't have a KX3, but the first thing I would do in this case is 
measure the voltage from the batteries when transmitting. Maybe the 
voltage is dropping severely enough to cause a problem.

73,
Vic, 4X6GP/K2VCO
Rehovot, Israel
http://www.qsl.net/k2vco/

On 20 May 2016 21:15, Mike Weir wrote:
> I took my KX3 out on the trail today and for the first time ever I
> got ERR TXG and D=114? I looked things up on my Iphone and seemed it
> needed a TX gain calibration. It never has done this in the past but
> I figured maybe because I loaded on the new firmware that gives me
> more Transmit power. I took the rig home hooked it up to a dummy
> load, plugged it into my power supply and ran the TX gain calibration
> from the KX3 utility. All went well and it passed, I then removed it
> from the power supply and on battery power I put the rig into
> transmit (holding the XMIT button in CW mode) and I received the same
> message. On the home power supply no problem but on the internal
> batteries I get the error message. VE3WDM Mike