Is your transmitter in "tx test" mode? Jim WB8AZP
Sent from my iPad On May 25, 2013, at 5:58 PM, "Brian F. Wruble" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi guys, > > I am in a fight with my just assembled K3. I have gone through all the > steps, and everything worked. However, I could not get the sub-receiver to > receive anything --- just noise. > > So I figured I would put that aside for awhile and try transmitting into a > dummy load. I had already run the TX gain Calibration steps at 5watts and > 50 watts, both with no problem. > > I found that though I I can hear my audio (sounding good) in the XMIT > Monitor, I had little to no indication of RF out, either on the rig's meter > or an external meter. > > So I reran XMIT gain calibration with this result: > > OS Version 6.1 Build 7601 Windows 7/Windows Server 2008 R2 > K3 MCU revision 04.67. RS-232 speed 4800 bit/s. > Starting 5 watt calibration > Calibrating at 1.900 MHz > Calibration power settled at " 0.0 W ;" > Elapsed time: 5 seconds > Tx Gain calibration failed because transmit power did not reach the > expected value > > > I saved my configuration, then did a reset. The result was the same. I > reloaded my configuration file, result the same. The 50 watt test gives a > similar error. > > No smoke by the way. > > What have I done? > > Tnx de Brian W3BW > > > *Brian F. Wruble, C.F.A. > > *70 is the new 40.* > * > Mail: 1107 Key Plaza, PMB 447 Key West, FL 33040-4077 > Summers: P.O.Box 57, 7400 Augustine Herman Highway, Georgetown, MD 21930 > eFax 305.768.0278 > ______________________________________________________________ > 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
