What happens when you do it manually at this same power setting? Does the power continue to jitter around 5.0 to 5.2?
The calibration code samples the power shown in VFO B every 100 msec, for up to 20 samples, until the last four samples have the same value. If they don't settle to the same value, and if that value isn't between one digit of the target value, the utility reports failure. But the code sets the power to 5.0 watts before the calibration begins. I'll play with this a bit to see what happens here. Thank you! Dick From: Ken K3IU [mailto:kenk...@cox.net] Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2008 6:36 AM To: Dick Dievendorff Cc: 'Dave G4AON'; elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3: Automated Transmit Gain Calibration at 5 W, 50 W, and 1 mW Hi Dick: I just tested here and if power control set to any 5.x > 5.0, the test fails with the following messages in the log: ============== Power set to 5.1: Calibrating at 1.900 MHz Power did not settle Sample values: 5.2 W ; 5.0 W ; 5.2 W ; 5.0 W ; 5 Watt calibration failed. ============== Power set to 5.2: Starting 5 Watt calibration. Calibrating at 1.900 MHz Unexpected response "DB 5.2 W ;" to "DB;". State 127 5 Watt calibration failed. ==================== Power set to 5.6: Starting 5 Watt calibration. Calibrating at 1.900 MHz Unexpected response "DB 5.4 W ;" to "DB;". State 127 5 Watt calibration failed. ====================== Power set to 5.9: Starting 5 Watt calibration. Calibrating at 1.900 MHz Unexpected response "DB 5.9 W ;" to "DB;". State 127 5 Watt calibration failed. Starting 5 Watt calibration. 73, Ken K3IU ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dick Dievendorff wrote: This is interesting, I'll fool with this. I don't know why the pre-calibration power setting would affect the automatic calibration, because the power is set by the calibration routine to 5 or 50 watts or 1 milliwatt (on each band) before any transmission. 73 de Dick, K6KR -----Original Message----- From: Dave G4AON [mailto:elecr...@astromag.co.uk] Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2008 2:26 AM To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3: Automated Transmit Gain Calibration at 5 W, 50 W, and 1 mW Dick, nice utility. I've noticed an error can occur if the K3 is set to lowish power when you start the calibration run. I had power set to 5.6 Watts and the 5 Watt cal routine failed. Setting the power to 35 Watts allowed it all to run correctly. Apologies if this has already been noted. 73 and all the best for 2009 Dave, G4AON K3 #80 f/w 2.76 _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
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