[Elecraft] P3 Not Zeroed

[Gary Smith]

Kev,

Glad it's working! I'm enough OCD that 
after being a few Hz off every so often 
and going through the ref cal procedure, I 
bought the exref option and a BFG7TBL 
GPSDO on fleabay. With this, the K3 & now 
K3s is adjusted perfectly at all times and 
the computer clock is dead on constantly.

I used NMEATime for the satellite software 
for time and it's for me, perfect, never 
fails.

Rarely I'll find the P3 is a tad off but 
when it is, all I do now is find WWV, set 
the span the the narrowest, tap the P3 
menu button, select ref cal, tap select, 
adjust the encoder till the center P3 line 
is in the center of the signal, tap select 
and I'm done. As the radio is always kept 
stable with the GPSDO, it's that one 
occasional above set of actions that takes 
30 seconds, to keep the P3 in perfect 
sync.

I believe Wayne said the hardware to 
connect directly to the GPSDO is included 
with the upcoming K4 series.

73,

Gary
KA1J


> Only to read the scale. Keyed from the rig.
> 
> It's working guys! As I mentioned, everything is lining up as
> expected.
> 
> This is why I went with Elecraft. Because of this group. Last group
> would have been everything from RTFM to why would you want to do
> that...
> 
> 73,
> Kev N4TT
> 
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 8:56 PM Don Wilhelm <donwilh at embarqmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Kev,
> >
> > Do you have FlDigi set to produce audio tones in SSB mode for CW or
> > is it keying the K3 directly? That will make a significant
> > difference, and the P3 signal placement will reflect that.
> >
> > We did not consider that you were using a software application to
> > produce CW previously to this post. Know what your software
> > application is doing and you may have the answer to your question.
> >
> > 73,
> > Don W3FPR
> >
> > On 7/25/2019 2:41 PM, Kevin, N4TT wrote:
> > > Hi Don:
> > >
> > > I'm still checking things out but I think I have it all working
> > > together. I calibrated the radio using WWV at 5, 10 and 15 MHz. I
> > > only had to line up one and the other two fell right in. Then I
> > > went to the P3 and lined that up with ref cal. Again, everything
> > > lined up at 5, 10 and 15.
> > >
> > > Then I want back to fldigi which is where I originally noticed the
> > > difference. I have the radio and fldigi set for a CW sidetone of
> > > 600 Hz. When I would tune in the radio for the 600 Hz tone on a
> > > random CW signal, the peak of the P3 trace was right over the
> > > signal and Fldigi showed the signal up at  600 Hz. Everything
> > > matched. This is what I was looking for, the three functions
> > > matching.
> > >
> > > I think I'm in good shape.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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