Good suggestion Greg! Tried in manually, same issue.
Think it is a power supply problem, RF may be getting into my power supply, shutting it off. Manually I get up to 50 watts, then the K3 shuts down, fine on the other bands, so not a a current draw issue. I'll need to lash up a battery for additional testing, but wager that is it. Will report back to the group. Cordially, Bruce J. Howes On Jan 23, 2011, at 2:31 PM, Greg wrote: > Bruce. Try it manually and see if it works. > > > > On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Bruce W1UJR <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > Just installed the KPA3 100 watt PA into my K3. > While running through the TX Gain Calibration program in the K3 Utility I > received an error. > > Did the 5 watt cal no problem, but when it was doing the 50 MHz calibrate the > K3 shut off > and displayed the error below in the K3 Utility window. > > Thinking this an aberration, I attempted 3 more times, each time the K3 shuts > off during > the 50 MHZ cal period. > > I used my nifty Elecraft W1 power meter to measure RF, on all bands 50+ > watts, the 5/6 LEDs on the W1 > were present on all bands, including 50 MHZ, as the K3 Utility runs the RF > test on the 50 MHz, > the K3 shuts off. > > I just upgraded to the new firmware before adding the KPA3, not sure if this > is related to that > or not. > > Suggestions? > > ERROR MESSAGE FROM K3 UTILITY FOLLOWS > > at 24.930 MHz > Calibrating at 29.000 MHz > Calibrating at 52.000 MHz > StartTune: Unexpected response '' to 'TQ;'. State 139 > StopTune: Unexpected response '' to 'TQ;'. State 77 > RestoreKAT3: Unexpected response '' to 'MP;'. State 224 > RestorePower: Unexpected response '' to 'PC;'. State 87 > > > > Cordially, > Bruce J. Howes > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > 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:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
