Roger, My first inclination would be that the issues you're seeing are due to lack of power. I'd power the P3 from another source with a temporary cord, if you can, while you await arrival of the one from Elecraft. That might make all the difference in the world.
HTH. 73, --Ian Ian Kahn, KM4IK Roswell, GA [email protected] K3 #281, P3 #688 On 3/21/2012 10:52 PM, W5RDW wrote: > Got the P3/SVGA today. It was an assembled unit with the SVGA factory > installed. I am powering it off the K3 +12 volt output. The new power cable > is in the mail. It has not shut down after all afternoon and evening ON. > > It has never displayed the actual RF frequency up in the center top of the > screen or at the left or right side top. Zero is at the top center and the > +/- Spans are at the ends. I can adjust the span as it describes. The > Markers only display the offset from the center, not the RF frequency. > > I cannot toggle it to the Fixed Mode also. It stays in the Tracking Mode. I > have the latest firmware installed (P3 1.12, K3 MCU 4.39, FPF 1.14, DSP1 > 2.73). The cables between the P3 and the K3 are per the manual. I even > tried a reload of the K3 and P3 firmware and even reinitialized the P3 (page > 28 of the manual). > > I am using an external 19 inch flat panel Acer monitor. Any ideas what I am > doing wrong? > > Roger W5RDW > > > > ----- > Roger W5RDW > -- > View this message in context: > http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/P3-w-SVGA-No-actual-RF-Frequency-display-tp7394246p7394246.html > Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > ______________________________________________________________ > 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
