[Elecraft] New wierd K3s behavior

Jim Miller jim at jtmiller.com
Wed May 23 08:31:05 EDT 2018


That's it!

Have you reported this to Wayne?

jim ab3cv

On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 12:00 AM, Michael Eberle <mteberle at mchsi.com> wrote:

> Mine does this on 6 meters if SPLIT is enabled. Turning SPLIT off and then
> pressing TUNE it will put out power.  Turn SPLIT back on and TUNE will put
> out full power until the next power cycle of the radio.  Strangely, it only
> happens on 6 meters.
>
> I posted about it here before and was told it was probably an issue with
> WSJT-X which doesn't make sense because the radio behaves this way without
> WSJT-X even running on my computer.  I don't know how WSJT-X could change
> the K3 firmware.
>
> Mike - KI0HA
>
>
> On 5/22/2018 07:11, Jim Miller wrote:
>
>> When I turn on my K3s (and let it finish booting) and try pressing TUNE
>> (hold XMIT) I get a zero power indication rather than tune power if in
>> DATA
>> A mode.
>>
>> A quick trip to CW then hitting a few dits on the paddle produces the
>> expected 100w barefoot power.
>>
>> Then returning to DATA A and TUNE and the expected tune power is emitted.
>>
>> No idea why this would occur and it is a new thing. I have recently
>> updated
>> to the latest beta firmware for the enhanced KPA1500 integration. Perhaps
>> a
>> bug was introduced there?
>>
>> Ideas?
>>
>> Jim ab3cv
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