Jim, Your mention of an initial observation of an RS232 problem is a "red flag" clue.
"First I had trouble getting the PC to K3 serial port communication going. This will be subject of another, less urgent, request". Since the radio can be controlled by the RS232 port, if it is in a bad or unknown state, you may not be able to override it manually - as you apparently found out. 73, Bob W5OV -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of Jim Spears Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 8:34 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [Elecraft] K3/100 S/N 2295 back on line Thanks to Gregg for suggesting that I hold the power button for 10 seconds after power on. It is unclear that this truly fixed the problem or enabled download but it is true that after several tries, I was able to successfully reload all firmware and the radio is back on line. Geez, sure would hate to have to do this in middle of a contest or other important activity! Wonder what happened to cause the K3 to go into such a state that it was very difficult to recover from. Jim N1NK ______________________________________________________________ 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 ______________________________________________________________ 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
