It was never intended to make the K3 a 1-band radio, but I'll add this to the list.
73, Wayne N6KR On Apr 4, 2011, at 5:00 PM, iain macdonnell - N6ML wrote: > Just my impression... but I don't think the Band Map is really > intended as a "lock out" - just a way to have normally-unused bands > skipped when cycling through. If you only use one band, you wouldn't > be expected to use the band up/down buttons at all ;) > > ~iain / N6ML > > > On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 11:48 PM, Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> Recently, Gary VK4FD and I were participating in the John Moyle >> Field Day here in Nth QLD. (It was on at the same time as CQ WW SSB) >> As we were just 2 of 5 operators in the club station (VK4WAT) we >> decided to lock down our K3's so that the yaecomwood drivers would >> be able to use the K3's. >> Each K3 was locked down so that it was a single band radio, mine on >> 40M and Gary's on 20M. >> >> That's when we noticed the possible problem. >> >> You can lock out all but one band in firmware but the radio will >> still change bands! >> >> On my radio, I had all bands but 40M locked out, yet it could still >> be changed to (And it was fully operational on) 20M and 80M even >> though those bands were locked out. >> The behaviour on 20M is noted in brackets. >> >> Try the following: >> Config: Band Map >> Turn off all bands but 40M. (20M) >> Exit Config menu: >> >>> From 40M band. (20M) >> Press Band UP >> Rig changes to 80M. (40M) >> Press Band Up again. >> Rig changes back to 40M (20M) >> >>> From 40M band: >> Press Band Down >> Rig changes to 20M. (15M) >> Press Band Down again >> Rig changes back to 40M (20M) >> >> Note that at no time does the rig change to one of the so called >> WARC bands in these 2 tests. >> However, if the test is done with the rig only having 30M enabled, >> then shifts to 5MHz and 17M occur. >> >> As my rig has the 2M internal transverter I have also tried that >> band with the following results: >> 2M band enabled, all others locked out. >> BND UP selects 10M >> BND DWN selects 80M >> >> The behaviour is similar on all bands when only one band is enabled. >> >> In each rig we also tried with 2 bands unlocked and each rig >> performed as it should with all bands but the 2 selected for >> operation being locked out and unable to be used. >> So it appears that this issue occurs only when all but one band is >> locked out. >> >> This has been checked on both my K3 (Serial #4257) and Gary VK4FD's >> K3 (Serial #679) with the same results. >> Gary's firmware revision at the time was v 4.25, mine was v 4.30 >> and although I now have 4.31 in the rig it still does this behaviour. >> >> I'd like others to try the same procedure to see if the same >> results are found and then we can get Wayne to checkout the firmware. >> >> Over to you all. >> >> >> Jeff Cochrane - VK4BOF >> Innisfail, QLD, Australia >> ______________________________________________________________ >> 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
