Re: [Elecraft] K3 Beta Firmware Rev. 3.59: Misc. improvements
In 3.59 -- Sync AM listening to music on HF BC, the sync search usually kicks in and resettles at the bottom of a carrier fadeout, which will almost always involve a near 180 degree phase shift at the bottom. The transition is MUCH better than 3.58 for listening to music, the one or two cycle woop neatly blending into the other spectral changes at the bottom of the fade, MINUS the no-carrier distortion. I found myself enjoying a story reading on 7440 (?, didn't write it down) where using the shift to listen on the upper side got rid of some grindy stuff on low side, and the considerable fades were handled. -Nice- :) On the firmware loads... Standard advice if any firmware load issues, on PC shut down all programs except the utility, do nothing else when loading firmware. Do NOT try to load firmware with the download as a virtual directory. If the utility starts up funny, takes too long, or comes up on 9k serial speed, kill it and restart it. When the utility comes up quick and clean, start the firmware, get up and take a break. Leave PC alone, don't touch, no browsing, no mouse moves. When it's done, kill the utility, power off the K3 for at least 15 seconds. THEN power on and see how it's working. Various occasional wierdness has ceased since rigidly sticking to this policy. Windows has always been hostile to timing sensitive hardware drivers and utilities. 73, Guy. On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 9:41 PM, Wayne Burdick n...@elecraft.com wrote: K3 beta-test firmware revision 3.59 (with DSP rev. 2.46) is now available. See release notes below. Rev. 3.59 does _not_ include any changes to DVR message playback and cancel. These are still in the works and will be made available in time for the phone contest this weekend. Please send any questions to k3supp...@elecraft.com. For instructions on how to load beta firmware, see: http://www.elecraft.com/K3/k3_software.htm 73, Wayne N6KR * * * MCU 3.59 / DSP 2.46, 11-18-2009 * FSK-D WAS CHANGING TO AFSK-A ON A/B or REV: Fixed. * SYNC AM VFO TRACKING ACCURACY IMPROVED (DSP 2.46). The offset contributed by the synchronous AM detector's PLL should be only a few Hz, max. * SWR INDICATOR TONES AFTER ATU TUNE: If switch tones are enabled, a second tone will be emitted following an ATU TUNE. This tone provides a rough idea of the SWR that the KAT3 was able to obtain: Lower pitch than 1st tone: Unknown SWR (ant. may be shorted) Same pitch as 1st tone: SWR = 2.0:1 Medium-high pitch: SWR = 3.0:1 High pitch: SWR 3.0:1. This feature was added primarily for our blind customers, but it’s useful whenever you tap ATU TUNE without looking at the final SWR reading. Remote Control Command Changes: * IC COMMAND (ICON status): Now returning correct message bank in voice modes (byte a, bit 3). __ 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 __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] K3 Beta Firmware Rev. 3.59: Misc. improvements
The K3 Utility reads each .hex file into RAM (and validates it there) before starting to send it to the K3. If the file is unreadable because of a network glitch, we want to discover that before beginning a firmware load. This was fixed almost a year ago. Dick, K6KR -Original Message- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Guy Olinger K2AV Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 8:41 AM To: Wayne Burdick Cc: Elecraft Reflector; elecraft...@yahoogroups.com; elecr...@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 Beta Firmware Rev. 3.59: Misc. improvements In 3.59 -- Sync AM listening to music on HF BC, the sync search usually kicks in and resettles at the bottom of a carrier fadeout, which will almost always involve a near 180 degree phase shift at the bottom. The transition is MUCH better than 3.58 for listening to music, the one or two cycle woop neatly blending into the other spectral changes at the bottom of the fade, MINUS the no-carrier distortion. I found myself enjoying a story reading on 7440 (?, didn't write it down) where using the shift to listen on the upper side got rid of some grindy stuff on low side, and the considerable fades were handled. -Nice- :) On the firmware loads... Standard advice if any firmware load issues, on PC shut down all programs except the utility, do nothing else when loading firmware. Do NOT try to load firmware with the download as a virtual directory. If the utility starts up funny, takes too long, or comes up on 9k serial speed, kill it and restart it. When the utility comes up quick and clean, start the firmware, get up and take a break. Leave PC alone, don't touch, no browsing, no mouse moves. When it's done, kill the utility, power off the K3 for at least 15 seconds. THEN power on and see how it's working. Various occasional wierdness has ceased since rigidly sticking to this policy. Windows has always been hostile to timing sensitive hardware drivers and utilities. 73, Guy. On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 9:41 PM, Wayne Burdick n...@elecraft.com wrote: K3 beta-test firmware revision 3.59 (with DSP rev. 2.46) is now available. See release notes below. Rev. 3.59 does _not_ include any changes to DVR message playback and cancel. These are still in the works and will be made available in time for the phone contest this weekend. Please send any questions to k3supp...@elecraft.com. For instructions on how to load beta firmware, see: http://www.elecraft.com/K3/k3_software.htm 73, Wayne N6KR * * * MCU 3.59 / DSP 2.46, 11-18-2009 * FSK-D WAS CHANGING TO AFSK-A ON A/B or REV: Fixed. * SYNC AM VFO TRACKING ACCURACY IMPROVED (DSP 2.46). The offset contributed by the synchronous AM detector's PLL should be only a few Hz, max. * SWR INDICATOR TONES AFTER ATU TUNE: If switch tones are enabled, a second tone will be emitted following an ATU TUNE. This tone provides a rough idea of the SWR that the KAT3 was able to obtain: Lower pitch than 1st tone: Unknown SWR (ant. may be shorted) Same pitch as 1st tone: SWR = 2.0:1 Medium-high pitch: SWR = 3.0:1 High pitch: SWR 3.0:1. This feature was added primarily for our blind customers, but it's useful whenever you tap ATU TUNE without looking at the final SWR reading. Remote Control Command Changes: * IC COMMAND (ICON status): Now returning correct message bank in voice modes (byte a, bit 3). __ 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 __ 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 __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] K3 Beta Firmware Rev. 3.59: Misc. improvements
My take on this would be that although the PC copy of the file is fine, that Winders is glitching the send from the PC to the K3 by not paying rapt attention to the one and only timing dependent app running at the time, and somehow dropping stuff. The procedure previously outlined has kept firmware loads pristine. On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 12:05 PM, Dick Dievendorff die...@comcast.net wrote: The K3 Utility reads each .hex file into RAM (and validates it there) before starting to send it to the K3. If the file is unreadable because of a network glitch, we want to discover that before beginning a firmware load. This was fixed almost a year ago. Dick, K6KR -Original Message- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Guy Olinger K2AV Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2009 8:41 AM To: Wayne Burdick Cc: Elecraft Reflector; elecraft...@yahoogroups.com; elecr...@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 Beta Firmware Rev. 3.59: Misc. improvements In 3.59 -- Sync AM listening to music on HF BC, the sync search usually kicks in and resettles at the bottom of a carrier fadeout, which will almost always involve a near 180 degree phase shift at the bottom. The transition is MUCH better than 3.58 for listening to music, the one or two cycle woop neatly blending into the other spectral changes at the bottom of the fade, MINUS the no-carrier distortion. I found myself enjoying a story reading on 7440 (?, didn't write it down) where using the shift to listen on the upper side got rid of some grindy stuff on low side, and the considerable fades were handled. -Nice- :) On the firmware loads... Standard advice if any firmware load issues, on PC shut down all programs except the utility, do nothing else when loading firmware. Do NOT try to load firmware with the download as a virtual directory. If the utility starts up funny, takes too long, or comes up on 9k serial speed, kill it and restart it. When the utility comes up quick and clean, start the firmware, get up and take a break. Leave PC alone, don't touch, no browsing, no mouse moves. When it's done, kill the utility, power off the K3 for at least 15 seconds. THEN power on and see how it's working. Various occasional wierdness has ceased since rigidly sticking to this policy. Windows has always been hostile to timing sensitive hardware drivers and utilities. 73, Guy. On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 9:41 PM, Wayne Burdick n...@elecraft.com wrote: K3 beta-test firmware revision 3.59 (with DSP rev. 2.46) is now available. See release notes below. Rev. 3.59 does _not_ include any changes to DVR message playback and cancel. These are still in the works and will be made available in time for the phone contest this weekend. Please send any questions to k3supp...@elecraft.com. For instructions on how to load beta firmware, see: http://www.elecraft.com/K3/k3_software.htm 73, Wayne N6KR * * * MCU 3.59 / DSP 2.46, 11-18-2009 * FSK-D WAS CHANGING TO AFSK-A ON A/B or REV: Fixed. * SYNC AM VFO TRACKING ACCURACY IMPROVED (DSP 2.46). The offset contributed by the synchronous AM detector's PLL should be only a few Hz, max. * SWR INDICATOR TONES AFTER ATU TUNE: If switch tones are enabled, a second tone will be emitted following an ATU TUNE. This tone provides a rough idea of the SWR that the KAT3 was able to obtain: Lower pitch than 1st tone: Unknown SWR (ant. may be shorted) Same pitch as 1st tone: SWR = 2.0:1 Medium-high pitch: SWR = 3.0:1 High pitch: SWR 3.0:1. This feature was added primarily for our blind customers, but it's useful whenever you tap ATU TUNE without looking at the final SWR reading. Remote Control Command Changes: * IC COMMAND (ICON status): Now returning correct message bank in voice modes (byte a, bit 3). __ 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 __ 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 __ 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
[Elecraft] K3 Beta Firmware Rev. 3.59: Misc. improvements
K3 beta-test firmware revision 3.59 (with DSP rev. 2.46) is now available. See release notes below. Rev. 3.59 does _not_ include any changes to DVR message playback and cancel. These are still in the works and will be made available in time for the phone contest this weekend. Please send any questions to k3supp...@elecraft.com. For instructions on how to load beta firmware, see: http://www.elecraft.com/K3/k3_software.htm 73, Wayne N6KR * * * MCU 3.59 / DSP 2.46, 11-18-2009 * FSK-D WAS CHANGING TO AFSK-A ON A/B or REV: Fixed. * SYNC AM VFO TRACKING ACCURACY IMPROVED (DSP 2.46). The offset contributed by the synchronous AM detector's PLL should be only a few Hz, max. * SWR INDICATOR TONES AFTER ATU TUNE: If switch tones are enabled, a second tone will be emitted following an ATU TUNE. This tone provides a rough idea of the SWR that the KAT3 was able to obtain: Lower pitch than 1st tone: Unknown SWR (ant. may be shorted) Same pitch as 1st tone: SWR = 2.0:1 Medium-high pitch: SWR = 3.0:1 High pitch: SWR 3.0:1. This feature was added primarily for our blind customers, but it’s useful whenever you tap ATU TUNE without looking at the final SWR reading. Remote Control Command Changes: * IC COMMAND (ICON status): Now returning correct message bank in voice modes (byte a, bit 3). __ 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
