Firmware bug?

[OE5CSP-Chris]

After installing the latest Beta firmware and utility I realized, that the K3 does not pull out more than 85 watt on some bands. The power is set to 100 watt. Did anybody notice that?

73, Chris-OE5CSP

Chris...

Have you checked in a 50 ohm dummy load?  I am not sure what load you are using, but I would do that first to see if it is a firmware bug,  I do not see that issue on mine and I have the latest load.

Lee - K0WA


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After installing the latest Beta firmware and utility I realized, that the K3
does not pull out more than 85 watt on some bands. The power is set to 100
watt. Did anybody notice that?

73, Chris-OE5CSP
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[Jim-168]

Same here. No issue with 2.80.

 

 

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Chris...

Have you checked in a 50 ohm dummy load?  I am not sure what load you are using, but I would do that first to see if it is a firmware bug,  I do not see that issue on mine and I have the latest load.

Lee - K0WA


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--- On Wed, 2/4/09, OE5CSP-Chris <[hidden email]> wrote:

From: OE5CSP-Chris <[hidden email]>
Subject: [Elecraft] Firmware bug?
To: [hidden email]
Date: Wednesday, February 4, 2009, 6:18 AM

After installing the latest Beta firmware and utility I realized, that the K3

does not pull out more than 85 watt on some bands. The power is set to 100

watt. Did anybody notice that?

  

73, Chris-OE5CSP

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[Julian, G4ILO]

OE5CSP-Chris wrote

After installing the latest Beta firmware and utility I realized, that the K3 does not pull out more than 85 watt on some bands. The power is set to 100 watt. Did anybody notice that?

Have you done the TX Gain calibration on every band (there is a wizard to do this in the K3 Utility)?

I do notice the power measured by my AV-600 power meter is about 80W on 160m going up to 90W on 20m and staying at that level right thru 6m. I have calibrated the K3 at 5W and 50W using a DL1 and DMM which should be pretty accurate, and I calibrated the AV-600 at the same power levels. Given the accuracy of most amateur power meters is generally given as no better than 10% of FSD, and the K3 power sensing probably has no better accuracy, I would say that this is within the limits of measurement error. The difference between 85W and 100W is not going to be noticeable anyway.

[OE5CSP-Chris]

OE5CSP-Chris wrote

After installing the latest Beta firmware and utility I realized, that the K3 does not pull out more than 85 watt on some bands. The power is set to 100 watt. Did anybody notice that?

73, Chris-OE5CSP

My dummy load seems to be ok, but I can´t do the tx calibration with the K3 utility.Maybe I should reloud the Utility again...The K3 does not pull out more than 85 watt, even if I set it to 120 watt. I did not have this problem before.

Chris,OE5CSP

[OE5CSP-Chris]

<quote author="OE5CSP-Chris">
After installing the latest Beta firmware and utility I realized, that the K3 does not pull out more than 85 watt on some bands. The power is set to 100 watt. Did anybody notice that?

73, Chris-OE5CSP


Guys,

Thanks for your comments.I reloaded the K3 utility and latest firmware and everything is ok now.

73, Chris-OE5CSP