[Elecraft] [K3 Remote] TERM Mode no longer persists?

[Gerry Hull]

Hey Rick,

The TERM message should always be transitory.  If it is not, you have an
RS-232 control problem (like the null-modem issue).  Check all your
cables.  In 100% of the times I've seen this issue, it's a loose connector
or a mismatched cable

73

Gerry Hull, W1VE  Hancock, NH USA
Trustee, VY1AAA YT Remote





On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 1:50 PM Rick Tavan <rick at tavan.com> wrote:

> I seem to be suffering a recurrence of a very old problem (years ago) for
> which I don't recall the solution:
>
> I have a real K3 at the control site, controlling a K3 at the remote site
> via RRC-1258 MkII boxes. I have a mechanical D-SUB 9 pin switch to route
> the control site K3 serial port to either a local computer or the RRC. When
> routed to the RRC and operating normally, when I turn on the K3 it begins
> to show its power-on banner in the VFO B area, then mid-way through that
> scroll detects that it's in TERM mode with an RRC connected, powers up the
> remote K3, and all is well. However, that doesn't seem to be working now.
> The control K3 comes up and fails to detect the RRC. The power-on banner
> for the control K3 completes its scroll and the radio operates locally. I
> think it is slipping out of TERM mode. I can force it back into TERM mode
> with a long hold of the CONFIG button, but then it never turns on the
> remote radio. If I turn off the control K3 and then back on, it apparently
> has forgotten it was in TERM mode.
>
> Any advice?
>
> Thanks,
>
> /Rick N6XI
> --
>
> Rick Tavan
> Truckee, CA
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