new firmware release

[wf4o]

 I'm new to the K3 and so my settings may be faulty, buy here goes. I downloaded and installed the latest firmware today without problem. My problem is that when I  narrow my width to 0.5 I immediately lose all audio. I have a 400 Hz filter installed. I only regain audio with widening the width greater than 500 Hz and by turning off the AGC. This occurs with or without the APF being engaged. Also with APF engaged and with or without AGC I lose all audio and get strong clicks when adjusting the width and APF. Am I missing something in my setup?

[Dick Dievendorff]

Just a wild guess, but are your filters enabled for the mode you're using?

Using the K3 Utility's Configuration tab, Configure Crystal Filters, check
the rows titled "CW Enable", "LSB enable", etc.  These allow the filters to
be used for receive for the various modes.  Your 400 Hz filter needs to be
checked for it to be used for receive.


73 de Dick, K6KR




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 I'm new to the K3 and so my settings may be faulty, buy here goes. I
downloaded and installed the latest firmware today without problem. My
problem is that when I  narrow my width to 0.5 I immediately lose all audio.
I have a 400 Hz filter installed. I only regain audio with widening the
width greater than 500 Hz and by turning off the AGC. This occurs with or
without the APF being engaged. Also with APF engaged and with or without AGC
I lose all audio and get strong clicks when adjusting the width and APF. Am
I missing something in my setup?
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[Iain MacDonnell - N6ML-2]

Sounds like either your filter configuration is wrong, or your narrow
filter is faulty. Watch the "XFIL" section of the front panel display
as you narrow the bandwidth and make sure that it switches to the
appropriate filter slots based on what's physically installed. If not,
use the K3 Utility to adjust the filter configuration. Based on your
statement that you have a 400Hz filter, but the problem occurs at the
500Hz setting, I'm leaning towards configuration issue - you're
probably switching to a slot that has no filter installed.

    ~Iain / N6ML


On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 1:54 PM, wf4o <[hidden email]> wrote:

>
>  I'm new to the K3 and so my settings may be faulty, buy here goes. I
> downloaded and installed the latest firmware today without problem. My
> problem is that when I  narrow my width to 0.5 I immediately lose all audio.
> I have a 400 Hz filter installed. I only regain audio with widening the
> width greater than 500 Hz and by turning off the AGC. This occurs with or
> without the APF being engaged. Also with APF engaged and with or without AGC
> I lose all audio and get strong clicks when adjusting the width and APF. Am
> I missing something in my setup?
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[wf4o]

After shutting everything down and letting it set over night, I downloaded v 4.22 from my macbook pro to the k3 without incident and the radio works perfectly. This same thing happened when I tried to install the beta version. Only after shutting down overnight was I able to reinstall v 4.14. My filter configuration looks fine. So now could it be a hookup issue between the macbook pro and the K3? I'm using Prolific driver V1.4.0, K3 utility for mac and I also use MacLoggerDx. The problems downloading firmware were limited to the dsp load. My radio is grounded but the mac was on ac adapter. Thanks.

[G4LNA]

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[wf4o]

Thanks,I haven't heard that before, but I will certainly do this from now on. It does seem to involve the MCU module etc. Thanks again.

On Dec 11, 2010, at 4:00 PM, G4LNA [via Elecraft] wrote:

I used to get problems when I used to download the firmware and used the rig straight away and I found that if I switched the rig on and off twice in a row it functions perfectly after that, so I follow that procedure every time I load the firmware now and never get a problem.

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[Gary Gregory]

Hmmm, not sure why you need to switch off twice, once IS required as noted
in the K3 Manual and that has been the case with mine from day one.

Never had a FW download failure...yep, I got'em crossed now folks...:-)

73's
Gary

On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 10:07 AM, wf4o <[hidden email]> wrote:

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> Thanks,I haven't heard that before, but I will certainly do this from now
> on. It does seem to involve the MCU module etc. Thanks again.
> On Dec 11, 2010, at 4:00 PM, G4LNA [via Elecraft] wrote:
>
> > I used to get problems when I used to download the firmware and used the
> rig straight away and I found that if I switched the rig on and off twice in
> a row it functions perfectly after that, so I follow that procedure every
> time I load the firmware now and never get a problem.
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