The lesson is: If you change menu items related to K3 calibration settings, reboot the K3.
Here's what embarrassed me. A local recently licensed ham brought his newly built K3-100 over for some final tuneups. We checked the various earlier calibrations done and then went to the RF gain calibration. It worked except we ended up with an ERROR DSE message. The manual said to reload the DSP firmware. We did. Rebooted the K3, redid the calibration and the error went away. Note: the firmware versions were the same. Next we then did the S meter calibration and REF CAL steps (he was off a whole 27 Hz). The owner wanted to know how to set the mike and compression levels. So we went to SSB. Pressed the mike and got a solid carrier. No settings were wrong and it wasn't RF related. This was embarrassing since the SSB mode had apparently worked before. Was it something I did to kill his K3? The solution: Reboot the K3. Just why this happened is still a mystery. He also brought over his newly assembled P3. It worked fine too. Both builds were good work for a recently licensed ham. It illustrates how good the design and assembly instructions are. He has now been able to exhale after holding his breath during the entire assembly process. 73 de Brian/K3KO ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1375 / Virus Database: 1511/3678 - Release Date: 06/03/11 ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
