Re: [Elecraft] K3 Firmware upload elapsed time
No, that's not normal. It should only take a few minutes. Dave, N4QS Sent via BlackBerry by ATT -Original Message- From: Nand Kishore vu2...@gmail.com Sender: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2012 18:51:44 To: elecraftelecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: [Elecraft] K3 Firmware upload elapsed time What should be the time taken to do an upload for a K3 with subrx. In my case its about 70 minutes.Is this normal ? Nandu Vu2nks K3 # 282 __ 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 Firmware upload elapsed time
Check the bitrate between your computer and the K3. Unless there are problems, it should run at 38kbits/S. That's when it takes just a few minutes, but you may have yours set to a very slow speed. HTH 73 Dave G3TJP __ 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 Firmware upload elapsed time
Try turning on Advanced Mode in the View menu. If the link is causing errors, they'll be annunciated on the Send MCU Firmware pane. You should see the progress bar marking a new block of code every few seconds. 73, matt W6NIA On Mon, 03 Dec 2012 19:32:42 +0530, you wrote: Handshake between K3 and Comp. via utility is auto set at 38.4K. That,s what I have seen. I don't get a look in. Nandu __ 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 Firmware upload elapsed time
About five to eight minutes is normal. You may have many retries, indicating a less than ideal RS-232 connection. Use the view menu, verbose settings for explicit indications of each retry. Check that your cable hold down screws are snug. Try the troubleshooting steps in K3 Utility Help for USB to serial adapters if that is what you are using. If the RS232 cabling path is complex (many connectors) try to simplify it. Firmware load is done at 38400 bps. 73 de Dick, K6KR On Dec 3, 2012, at 5:21 AM, Nand Kishore vu2...@gmail.com wrote: What should be the time taken to do an upload for a K3 with subrx. In my case its about 70 minutes.Is this normal ? Nandu Vu2nks K3 # 282 __ 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 Firmware upload elapsed time
Hi Dick, I have been battling with an ERR TXG problem. I am in touch with support.Have changed LPA. No improvement in out put power,cannot exceed 10w with KPA3 in line.About 0.6W with KPA3 bypassed.Various voltages taken with rf probe as advised reported back to support.Was advised to do ref cal again. So,I did the full F/W down load,latest regular release with latest utility. It has been taking a long time to do F/W load lately,but always without any retries. So,I thought of asking here if the time taken to load was a norm.If the F/W is not done right,should I not sort it out first before looking at H/W. I have K3/100 # 282 + KRX3 + KDVR + P3. Using Laptop with pcmcia dual serial port card. 73 de Nandu On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Dick Dievendorff die...@comcast.net wrote: About five to eight minutes is normal. You may have many retries, indicating a less than ideal RS-232 connection. Use the view menu, verbose settings for explicit indications of each retry. Check that your cable hold down screws are snug. Try the troubleshooting steps in K3 Utility Help for USB to serial adapters if that is what you are using. If the RS232 cabling path is complex (many connectors) try to simplify it. Firmware load is done at 38400 bps. 73 de Dick, K6KR On Dec 3, 2012, at 5:21 AM, Nand Kishore vu2...@gmail.com wrote: What should be the time taken to do an upload for a K3 with subrx. In my case its about 70 minutes.Is this normal ? Nandu Vu2nks K3 # 282 __ 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 Firmware upload elapsed time
Has that serial path worked more quickly in the past? Do you have alternatives available to try? That load time is terrible v Dick On Dec 3, 2012, at 7:56 AM, Nand Kishore vu2...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Dick, I have been battling with an ERR TXG problem. I am in touch with support.Have changed LPA. No improvement in out put power,cannot exceed 10w with KPA3 in line.About 0.6W with KPA3 bypassed.Various voltages taken with rf probe as advised reported back to support.Was advised to do ref cal again. So,I did the full F/W down load,latest regular release with latest utility. It has been taking a long time to do F/W load lately,but always without any retries. So,I thought of asking here if the time taken to load was a norm.If the F/W is not done right,should I not sort it out first before looking at H/W. I have K3/100 # 282 + KRX3 + KDVR + P3. Using Laptop with pcmcia dual serial port card. 73 de Nandu On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Dick Dievendorff die...@comcast.net wrote: About five to eight minutes is normal. You may have many retries, indicating a less than ideal RS-232 connection. Use the view menu, verbose settings for explicit indications of each retry. Check that your cable hold down screws are snug. Try the troubleshooting steps in K3 Utility Help for USB to serial adapters if that is what you are using. If the RS232 cabling path is complex (many connectors) try to simplify it. Firmware load is done at 38400 bps. 73 de Dick, K6KR On Dec 3, 2012, at 5:21 AM, Nand Kishore vu2...@gmail.com wrote: What should be the time taken to do an upload for a K3 with subrx. In my case its about 70 minutes.Is this normal ? Nandu Vu2nks K3 # 282 __ 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 Firmware upload elapsed time
Yes, the uploads have been faster before.Now I will try with regular usb to serial cable which I had kept aside as I wanted FSK. Now I will take the cable directly to K3 instead of via P3. I have no other PC. Will report back. 73 de Nandu On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 9:41 PM, Dick Dievendorff die...@comcast.net wrote: Has that serial path worked more quickly in the past? Do you have alternatives available to try? That load time is terrible v Dick On Dec 3, 2012, at 7:56 AM, Nand Kishore vu2...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Dick, I have been battling with an ERR TXG problem. I am in touch with support.Have changed LPA. No improvement in out put power,cannot exceed 10w with KPA3 in line.About 0.6W with KPA3 bypassed.Various voltages taken with rf probe as advised reported back to support.Was advised to do ref cal again. So,I did the full F/W down load,latest regular release with latest utility. It has been taking a long time to do F/W load lately,but always without any retries. So,I thought of asking here if the time taken to load was a norm.If the F/W is not done right,should I not sort it out first before looking at H/W. I have K3/100 # 282 + KRX3 + KDVR + P3. Using Laptop with pcmcia dual serial port card. 73 de Nandu On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Dick Dievendorff die...@comcast.netwrote: About five to eight minutes is normal. You may have many retries, indicating a less than ideal RS-232 connection. Use the view menu, verbose settings for explicit indications of each retry. Check that your cable hold down screws are snug. Try the troubleshooting steps in K3 Utility Help for USB to serial adapters if that is what you are using. If the RS232 cabling path is complex (many connectors) try to simplify it. Firmware load is done at 38400 bps. 73 de Dick, K6KR On Dec 3, 2012, at 5:21 AM, Nand Kishore vu2...@gmail.com wrote: What should be the time taken to do an upload for a K3 with subrx. In my case its about 70 minutes.Is this normal ? Nandu Vu2nks K3 # 282 __ 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 Firmware upload elapsed time
Make sure you have the latest version of the K3 Utility. Fred Cady fcady at ieee dot org -Original Message- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft- boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Nand Kishore Sent: Monday, December 03, 2012 9:31 AM To: Dick Dievendorff Cc: elecraft Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 Firmware upload elapsed time Yes, the uploads have been faster before.Now I will try with regular usb to serial cable which I had kept aside as I wanted FSK. Now I will take the cable directly to K3 instead of via P3. I have no other PC. Will report back. 73 de Nandu On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 9:41 PM, Dick Dievendorff die...@comcast.net wrote: Has that serial path worked more quickly in the past? Do you have alternatives available to try? That load time is terrible v Dick On Dec 3, 2012, at 7:56 AM, Nand Kishore vu2...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Dick, I have been battling with an ERR TXG problem. I am in touch with support.Have changed LPA. No improvement in out put power,cannot exceed 10w with KPA3 in line.About 0.6W with KPA3 bypassed.Various voltages taken with rf probe as advised reported back to support.Was advised to do ref cal again. So,I did the full F/W down load,latest regular release with latest utility. It has been taking a long time to do F/W load lately,but always without any retries. So,I thought of asking here if the time taken to load was a norm.If the F/W is not done right,should I not sort it out first before looking at H/W. I have K3/100 # 282 + KRX3 + KDVR + P3. Using Laptop with pcmcia dual serial port card. 73 de Nandu On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 9:04 PM, Dick Dievendorff die...@comcast.netwrote: About five to eight minutes is normal. You may have many retries, indicating a less than ideal RS-232 connection. Use the view menu, verbose settings for explicit indications of each retry. Check that your cable hold down screws are snug. Try the troubleshooting steps in K3 Utility Help for USB to serial adapters if that is what you are using. If the RS232 cabling path is complex (many connectors) try to simplify it. Firmware load is done at 38400 bps. 73 de Dick, K6KR On Dec 3, 2012, at 5:21 AM, Nand Kishore vu2...@gmail.com wrote: What should be the time taken to do an upload for a K3 with subrx. In my case its about 70 minutes.Is this normal ? Nandu Vu2nks K3 # 282 __ 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 Firmware upload elapsed time
K3 Utility # 1.12.10.10 in use. Tried upload agn with P3 bypassed.Regular usb to serial cable originally procured from Elecraft used.No upload failure.No retries. MCU load time 2.25 m FPF load time 2.20 m DSP1 load time 34.30m On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 10:06 PM, Cady, Fred fc...@ece.montana.edu wrote: Make sure you have the latest version of the K3 Utility. Fred Cady fcady at ieee dot org -Original Message- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft- boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Nand Kishore Sent: Monday, December 03, 2012 9:31 AM To: Dick Dievendorff Cc: elecraft Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 Firmware upload elapsed time Yes, the uploads have been faster before.Now I will try with regular usb to serial cable which I had kept aside as I wanted FSK. Now I will take the cable directly to K3 instead of via P3. I have no other PC. Will report back. 73 de Nandu On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 9:41 PM, Dick Dievendorff die...@comcast.net wrote: Has that serial path worked more quickly in the past? Do you have alternatives available to try? That load time is terrible v Dick __ 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
