Yes scary indeed! I have never yet had a download fail, Beta or otherwise, but, I always hold my breath until I have a working K3 again!
I dread the day this does fail and I have a dumb black box on my hands. Is there a quick route out of of this nightmare scenario? I have seen written " Dont Panic" but what exactly is the recommended procedure when a new download screws your superbly honed K3? 73, Deni F5VJC Julian, G4ILO wrote: > > It has been about 3 weeks since I last switched on my K3 and when I did so > just now, VFO A said "FPF Load" and VFO B said "Pending". It was working > OK when I last switched it off. > > I decided that the best thing to do would be to load the latest beta > firmware, which was what I was going to do anyway, but the K3 Utility > reported: > > Sending firmware file hfpf0002.hex to FPF > 21:40:28 Send FPF firmware failed at load address x7b1f > 21:40:28 FPF program load failed > 21:40:28 Ready > > The receiver appears to be working and I can tune the VFO, although I have > no idea where I am as the VFO display just reads FPF Load / Pending. > > While typing this I managed to clear the problem by pressing Band Down > until I got to the lower bands, when I saw that frequencies were appearing > again. When I press Band Up frequencies are now appearing, but when I move > up to 21MHz or any higher band VFO B briefly displays ERR PL1 before > showing the frequency. > > Having got to this point, I tried to upload the firmware again and this > time it appears to have been successful. So what went wrong? The previous > firmware was, I think, 2.13 beta. All seems OK now but it was a scary > moment that I could have done without. > -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/K3-FPF-Load-failed-tp666390p666430.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
