wayne burdick wrote: > > Should we offer a small discount on complex products if a potential > customer reads the entire manual and passes a test first? > > Wayne > N6KR >
There's plenty of things you can do with the K3 that are out of the ordinary, and you can stumble into them by accident. I think a "validator" addition to the K3 Utility would be nice. It could spot potential misconfigurations and provide a narrative-like description. The K3 Utility already has a configuration save/restore utility. A new "Validator" tab could read the same states using the CAT commands, and display something like this: * You cannot transmit because TEST mode is enabled. To disable TEST mode, press and hold TEST. * You have selected the separate RX ANT jack on bands 160 and 20m. While it is common to use a separate RX antenna on low bands, it is likely you have selected it by accident on 20m, which is the current band your K3 is set to. To disable the RX antenna on a band and antenna selection, select the band and ANT1 or ANT2 (with ANT) and press RX ANT. * DIGOUT1 is enabled on 40m ANT2 and you have a KPA500 connected via the ACC able. DIGOUT1 is a pin on the 15-pin ACC cable. This will disable the KPA500 on 40m/ANT2. To change this setting, select 40M and ANT2 and hold CONFIG and change the DIGOUT 1 setting. * Filter 5 Center Frequency Offset is Zero Filter is is an Elecraft 200Hz filter and it has a non-zero Frequency offset. While this is possible, it is more likely that you have not yet set the frequency offset. Consult the package that your filter came in and look for the offset frequency. Select Filter 5 with XFIL and then hold CONFIG and select FL5 FREQ and set it to the value specified. * XIT is enabled and non-zero XIT will cause your transmit frequency to differe from the VFO dial frequency by the amount shown in the VFO B display when you rotate the RIT/XIT knob. You will see the green RIG/XIT led is lit, as well as the yellow + or - LED. To disable XIT, tap the XIT button. * SPKR+PH is NO SPKR+PH is set to NO, which disables the K3 speaker. If you have no audio, but your headphones work, hold CONFIG and navigate to SPKR+PH and use the VFO knob to set the value to YES. Leigh/WA5ZNU -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/K2-100-75-meters-lost-receive-tp6510893p6518255.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________________________ 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