[Elecraft] Odd effect on the K3 when displaying REF*CAL

[ANDY NEHAN]

Your right. When I used Xmit button and a foot switch for transmit and they worked just fine. So that means its HRD and the CAT control that is "causing" the problem. I have tried using both the K3 controls and the keypad macro and I get the same result with both.

I guess its a "feature" of HRD!

Andy
----Original message----
>From : mike.harris at horizon.co.fk
Date : 25/02/2018 - 12:00 (GMTST)
To : andy.nehan at btinternet.com
Subject : Re: [Elecraft] Odd effect on the K3 when displaying REF*CAL

Hi Andy,

My K3 is equipped to use an external 10MHz reference. The display of 
REF*CAL implies yours is similarly equipped otherwise the display would 
be REF CAL.

I have never thought to TX when in the Config menu and displaying the 
REF*CAL reading. However, I have now tried it, under both manual control 
using the XMIT button, foot switch PTT and CAT from my PC running 
Logger32 and in all cases it changes from RX to TX to RX as expected.

Feel free to let me know if I've misunderstood your query. Quite happy 
to conduct further tests.

Regards,

Mike VP8NO

On 24/02/2018 18:52, ANDY NEHAN via Elecraft wrote:
> I use HRD to control my rig on data modes and it does a good
> job and works as expected. However, if the K3 display is set to show the
> REF*CAL situation then after transmitting the rig stays in transmit mode, as shown by the
> red TX button being lit. I have not noticed this when the K3 display shows
> other information such as the current being drawn.
> Is this to be expected??
> G4HUE Andy
>