Hi Bruce, You ARE connecting the rig to a dummy load for the calibration and not to an antenna, right? (Just checking the obvious first, no offense intended.)
73 -- Joe KB8AP On Jan 23, 2011, at 11:39 AM, Bruce James Howes wrote: > 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 ______________________________________________________________ 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
