Hi Ron, I am not sure it is a serial problem, in fact I would probably bet money that it is not... Here is something new to ponder about this that may help you...
If I go to the "CW is LSB" option in MixW, and assert it, all behaves fine, (both waterfall and signal track as I turn main tuning dial), on 80, through 17 Meters, if on the other hand I then switch to any band 15 through 10 meters, I get the action where as I adjust the frequency up using the tuning dial on the K3, the "dial", (in the waterfall), on MixW, tracks fine, (as it does on the lower bands), but the signal moves in the opposite direction, so it looks as if the frequency of the signal is changing as observed by MixW. If I then uncheck the "CW is LSB" option, the actions are reversed-- that is to say, that all works as expected on 21 through 10, and the reverse behavior is on 80 through 17 Meters... This baffles me totally... If it happened with the change boundary at 14 Mhz, (20 Meters), I would say it is the rig changing sidebands... But it happens on 15 Meters, working just fine on 20... So my first thought was that it was just the radio changing sidebands, so I set the MixW as "CW is LSB", all works on 80-17, I go to 15, see the reverse behavior. I then then hold down ALT for changing to the opposite sideband... The change happens, but the reverse and lack of tracking behavior continues, just on the other side of the waterfall. There are some very odd things about the K3 I still don't understand... If I load up FLDigi, I get the reversed behavior on all bands... Maybe the K3s are possessed, this baffles me totally... At the risk of sounding frustrated, this did not happen on the Pro III, or PRO II I had... The serial port was also able to keep up, where I suspect the K3 is processor bound and can't keep up with a 38K data stream. Maybe you are right, somehow this is serial related, but I can't see how... I do have two ongoing serial issues: 1. During frequency load I get timeouts, I would not expect this. 2. The K3 appears to be unable to keep up with the data being sent by MixW, where the Pro series was able to do both items 1 and 2 with no issues. -- Thanks and 73's, For equipment, and software setups and reviews see: www.nk7z.net for MixW support see; http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/mixw/info for Dopplergram information see: http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/dopplergram/info for MM-SSTV see: http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/MM-SSTV/info On Tue, 2014-11-04 at 07:26 -0800, rs500 wrote: > Dave, you are not alone. I have observed the same issue on my K3. I am > running a Signalink and FLDigi. Changing the Mode does seem to reverse the > direction on the waterfall but then I no longer trust the frequency display. > What I have found that consistently solves the problem (until the next > occurrence) is using the K3 Utility program to restore a saved > configuration. Unfortunately I need to close FLDigi in order for the > utility program to connect to the K3. > I have not definitively identified a set of events that causes the problem, > but it seems reasonable that it is a communication problem on the serial > port. I already have a variety of ferrite beads on the serial port and > other cables to the computer. Good luck > > Ron > K2RAS > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/OK-I-give-up-on-what-is-happening-tp7594377p7594388.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 > Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [email protected]
