[Elecraft] Glitch when using USB Keyboard on P3 to send CW via K3

[Kbeckman@wi.rr.com]

I had an interesting issue using a USB keyboard on a P3 to send CW via a K3.  The CW characters were not reliable, depending on how long (time wise) the CW character was.  E always worked perfectly, but H was a problem.  You could press H multiple times, and sometimes you would get dit dit dit dit and other times just dit dit, or dit dit dit.

The problem is a parameter in the P3.  This had been working perfectly, but I just upgraded all the firmware in the K3 and P3 recently.  Somewhere in this upgrade process, the parameter got wiped out.

To fix it:

  a.. Plug in a SVGA monitor and USB keyboard into the P3.
  b.. On the SVGA screen, you should have Ctrl-H Help    K on the lower right corner.
  c.. Press Ctrl-Alt-S to enter settings menu.
  d.. Press down arrow to put caret at  >Transmit Timeout.  
  e.. Press the right arrow to increase this value to 1000.
  f.. Press Esc to exit.  You should see Saving Settings...
The problem should be fixed.

I spoke to the engineer at Elecraft, who said there is a firmware version coming out to fix this.

Keith
K9GL