K3 #379 minor stumble

[Michael E. Dobson]

I've run into a minor glitch in the assembly of K3 #379.  I made it
up to the point of doing the 5W Transmitter Gain calibration without
a problem.  That went fine on every band but 60M, there I get no more
than 0.4W and a ERR TxG message when I exit Tune.  The installation
of the 100W amp and the final steps are on hold until I hear back
from K3support which means using the K3 in the ARRL CW contest this
weekend is very much in doubt.

On the other hand, while waiting for a reply I snagged VP6DX on 17M
at about 22:55Z with my trusty K2 for my first QSO with them.

73,
Mike WA3KYY
K2 #2221
K3 #379

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[BigAlT]

Per an earlier post by Greg AB7R, try to calibrate on one of the 60 Meter channels such as 5403.5 kHz.
 Al
 WB6HPF

Michael E. Dobson wrote

I've run into a minor glitch in the assembly of K3 #379.  I made it
up to the point of doing the 5W Transmitter Gain calibration without
a problem.  That went fine on every band but 60M, there I get no more
than 0.4W and a ERR TxG message when I exit Tune.  The installation
of the 100W amp and the final steps are on hold until I hear back
from K3support which means using the K3 in the ARRL CW contest this
weekend is very much in doubt.

On the other hand, while waiting for a reply I snagged VP6DX on 17M
at about 22:55Z with my trusty K2 for my first QSO with them.

73,
Mike WA3KYY
K2 #2221
K3 #379

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[Michael E. Dobson]

I should have checked the archives.  You need to be tuned to one of
the 60M channels to perform the TxG calibration on 60M. I found it
there just as the message from Gary came in with the same info.

Red faced and all.

73,
Mike WA3KYY

At 06:12 PM 2/14/2008, you wrote:

>I've run into a minor glitch in the assembly of K3 #379.  I made it
>up to the point of doing the 5W Transmitter Gain calibration without
>a problem.  That went fine on every band but 60M, there I get no
>more than 0.4W and a ERR TxG message when I exit Tune.  The
>installation of the 100W amp and the final steps are on hold until I
>hear back from K3support which means using the K3 in the ARRL CW
>contest this weekend is very much in doubt.
>
>On the other hand, while waiting for a reply I snagged VP6DX on 17M
>at about 22:55Z with my trusty K2 for my first QSO with them.
>
>73,
>Mike WA3KYY
>K2 #2221
>K3 #379
>
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