I think that I would be rather miffed, if in the middle of a contest or worse an expensive DXpedition the power went off (PowerPole or not) and I found the K3 software settings corrupted.
Most early computers monitored the power rails and shut down gracefully. 73 Stewart G3RXQ On Thu, 13 Mar 2014 09:22:16 -0700, Phil Wheeler wrote: > Agree re firmware fix if possible. Accidental > button pushes do happen. > > I guess the two-button approach on the KX3 > precludes this particular disaster :-) > > 73, Phil w7ox > > On 3/13/14, 1:28 AM, Stewart wrote: >> If this is the case, then surely it is something that can be easily >> addressed in >> the F/W. >> >> i.e. if the TUNE function (or any other critical function) is taking place, >> ignore presses of the Power button. >> >> Of course, this may not help if the PowerPole connector falls out ! >> >> 73 >> Stewart G3RXQ >> >> On Wed, 12 Mar 2014 21:53:31 -0700, Dick Frey wrote: >>> I was on 160m in the Tune mode on my K3. I accidently hit the Power >>> button to exit. The display went blank. Now nothing works. Removing >>> power and restart with >>> Power button gets the blank screen. >>> >>> Turning it on with the Shift/LO knob depressed brings up the meter and >>> bandwidth legends and EE INIT but mutiple pressing of the DISP button >>> have no effect. >>> >>> I tried reloading MCU but the K3 utility cannot connect to the K3 - >>> just keeps trying different speeds. >>> >>> Help! >>> >>> Dick, K4xu >> > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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
