Guy, well Elecraft said they acknowledge the issue and they will work on it in the next firmware. When that happens I will pick it up. Of course with 4.51 you can get perfect copy in perfect conds, but try a very weak signal or a noisy background and you are doomed. The cwt threshold point dropped from 8 to 2 with the new firmware leaving little to work with. I consider myself pretty good at setting cwt and have trained a few k3 owners in this area to the finer points using RF gain and filter width to get it near perfect, once the threshold is set.
On 29/07/2012 1:57, Guy Olinger K2AV wrote: > Sooner or later running a K3 with back level firmware will be a > problem. With so many devices coming out and the amount of work on > those, you will simply be left behind. No company without the > economies of scale like Microsoft can maintain old code. > > Some people report getting perfect copy using 4.51. Can they please > share the AGC settings, and decoder threshold, etc that they are > using. Please include any NB, NR, bandwidth, RF gain, etc. settings > you are using. > > Knowing the perverse nature of CPU coding for hardware, it's entirely > possible that the 4.47 "good menu settings" depended on an AGC bug in > 4.47. That would mean that it's impossible to restore the settings > from 4.47 in a future 4.52. > > I seem to remember a period of thrashing about when CW decode first > came out, until working popular settings emerged. > > 73, Guy. > > On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 9:00 PM, Adrian <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > See inline for comments > > -----Original Message----- > From: Toby Pennington [mailto:[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>] > Sent: Sunday, 29 July 2012 10:42 AM > To: Adrian > Subject: Re: Emailing: k3fw4r47.zip > > I have successfully downloaded 4.47 after crashing the radio once > but came > back according to your input and 4.47 loaded in. > > Disconnecting the P3 before K3 power up, after a mcu ld issue is > required > and I forgot to mention that. Plug P3 supply back after the K3 > firmware has > been completed. Sounds like you were good, but I just remembered that. > > Now, I am wondering what settings you have in your rig which > gives you > really good decode. I am working on that now. I have the AGC > threshold set > to 8 with the SLP set to 7. > > Set SLP to 0. AGC at 8 is good. > > I have theTEXT DEC set to threshold of 5 and 30 to 90 wpm. > > Yes the 30-90wpm works the best even at slow speeds. I use a > narrow filter. > Set threshold for clean pulses on the cwt display after spotting > (centre) > the signal. Then use filter width and/or rf gain to fine tune. I > get perfect > results most of the time, and using this method on noisy lower > bands works > well. > Just check the cwt is pulsing with the cw, then you are close. The > fine tune > is reflected in the print. > > I just noticed my P3 cursor will not move so have another issue > HI> Check > for tracking mode or disable re-enable svga etc. > > Good Luck > > Adrian ... vk4tux > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > <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
