Still no tx or rx on new K3

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Still no tx or rx on new K3

Bob Henderson-2
Bob

I had a similar experience for a few minutes during set-up of my new K3.  In
my case I had not installed a roofing filter at FL1, choosing instead to
leave a gap there for later installation of a wider filter.  The firmware
default assumes a filter will be present at FL1 and the absence of one made
the RX deaf and provided 0W RF out on TX.  Once I had changed the default
filter location, which I did using the Elecraft K3 utility, the RX came to
life and TX Gain Cal ran just fine producing the required 5W output on every
band.

This might possibly be your problem.

Good luck.

Bob, 5B4AGN
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Re: Still no tx or rx on new K3

K5SM
Bob

I certainly could have done that. In fact, before I powered it up the
first time, I had done the same thing, but when I ran the K3 Utility, I
corrected my error. Thanks for the suggestion. To all: I am working with
Wayne and Gary currently trying to chase down the problem. Thanks
everyone for your suggestions and good wishes.

Bob

On 11/15/2010 11:25 AM, Bob Henderson wrote:

> Bob
>
> I had a similar experience for a few minutes during set-up of my new K3.  In
> my case I had not installed a roofing filter at FL1, choosing instead to
> leave a gap there for later installation of a wider filter.  The firmware
> default assumes a filter will be present at FL1 and the absence of one made
> the RX deaf and provided 0W RF out on TX.  Once I had changed the default
> filter location, which I did using the Elecraft K3 utility, the RX came to
> life and TX Gain Cal ran just fine producing the required 5W output on every
> band.
>
> This might possibly be your problem.
>
> Good luck.
>
> Bob, 5B4AGN
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73, Bob K5SM

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