I had a whole raft of intermittent error messages to do with the SPI bus which was driving me nuts. Most of my K3 modules were not being recognised at some time or other. There is a modification to improve the supply rail decoupling on the bus which would appear to have cured my K3's ills in that department.
Send a mail to Elecraft support. 73 Stewart G3RXQ On Mon, 7 Jun 2010 09:32:52 -0700 (PDT), GW0ETF wrote: > > Chris, > > Random error messages on boot up still plague me frequently. Normally I get > a whole series of them beginning with BP3 usually but they can vary. With me > Sub always works but ATU and 100w module doesn't until I've sorted it by > repeated power up cycles or just leaving on for a while and then turning off > and on. One time recently it took a good hour of trying before it turned on > correctly.... > > I've never been able to figure out any logic to this; no connection with > temperature or the radio being moved, different firmware etc. The most > recent official release dealt with 'bus timing issues causing random error > messages on switch on..' but no real difference here and I'm pretty > convinced it's software and not hardware or seating problems, as when I've > got rid of the errors the radio works perfectly. > > Just when I think the problem's here to stay and decide it's time to tackle > the support guys again the radio starts to behave and I don't bother but > it's quite frustrating when it's in a "I'm not going to start up properly" > mood. > > 73, > > Stewart, GW0ETF ______________________________________________________________ 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
