Re: [Elecraft] K3 Utility help in England, please

2015-01-06 Thread Fred Townsend
Subject: [Elecraft] K3 Utility help in England, please Dear UK K3 owners, This email is a request for some help in troubleshooting my recently acquired K3. It is an early model Ser No 104 and has been hardly used. I suspect I am suffering from front panel to RF board pin corrosion problems since

[Elecraft] K3 Utility help in England, please

2015-01-06 Thread Ted G7BQM
Dear UK K3 owners, This email is a request for some help in troubleshooting my recently acquired K3. It is an early model Ser No 104 and has been hardly used. I suspect I am suffering from front panel to RF board pin corrosion problems since K3 utility fails to connect and comes up with the

[Elecraft] K3 utility help

2014-02-04 Thread Carl Yaffey
I installed the utility and installed what I think is the driver via CDM c2.08.30 WHQL Certified.exe I connected the KUSB cable to the K3’s RS232 port. I started the utility and selected COM3 as it was the only choice. The utility cannot find the K3. What am I missing? Carl Yaffey K8NU Banjo,

Re: [Elecraft] K3 utility help

2014-02-04 Thread Sam Morgan
check the utility baud rate is set correctly to match the k3's baud rate CONFIG RS232 On 2/4/2014 3:06 PM, Carl Yaffey wrote: I installed the utility and installed what I think is the driver via CDM c2.08.30 WHQL Certified.exe I connected the KUSB cable to the K3’s RS232 port. I started the

Re: [Elecraft] K3 utility help

2014-02-04 Thread Mike Reublin
Assuming Windows, what does device manager say about the port? No other program is using the port, right? Have you tried a reboot of the puter? Is the DB9 firmly attached to the K3? When you plugged the USB cable into the 'puter did Windows recognize it? That's all I got 73 Mike NF4L

Re: [Elecraft] K3 utility help

2014-02-04 Thread Mike Reublin
I think the k3 Utility will match whatever the K3 is set to. AFAIR, it cycles thru all the baud rates. 73, Mike NF4L On Feb 4, 2014, at 4:19 PM, Sam Morgan k5oai@gmail.com wrote: check the utility baud rate is set correctly to match the k3's baud rate CONFIG RS232 On 2/4/2014 3:06 PM,

Re: [Elecraft] K3 utility help

2014-02-04 Thread Dick Dievendorff
[mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Mike Reublin Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2014 1:26 PM To: Elecraft Reflector Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 utility help I think the k3 Utility will match whatever the K3 is set to. AFAIR, it cycles thru all the baud rates. 73, Mike NF4L On Feb 4, 2014

Re: [Elecraft] K3 utility help

2014-02-04 Thread Don Wilhelm
Mike, That may be true, but if the P3 is in place, the K3 rate must be set to 38,400 or some things will not work together. I don't know whether a P3 is involved in the original post or not. 73, Don W3FPR On 2/4/2014 4:25 PM, Mike Reublin wrote: I think the k3 Utility will match whatever

Re: [Elecraft] K3 utility help

2014-02-04 Thread Mike Reublin
True, Don and good point. But the utility still does the seek. It's not possible to match the utility and K3 manually. Mike NF4L On Feb 4, 2014, at 4:45 PM, Don Wilhelm w3...@embarqmail.com wrote: Mike, That may be true, but if the P3 is in place, the K3 rate must be set to 38,400 or

Re: [Elecraft] K3 utility help

2014-02-04 Thread Sam Morgan
you are quite correct, just goes to show I am playing with to many different pieces of software that aren't as smart as elecraft's utils g On 2/4/2014 3:25 PM, Mike Reublin wrote: I think the k3 Utility will match whatever the K3 is set to. AFAIR, it cycles thru all the baud rates. 73,

[Elecraft] K3 Utility help

2013-05-09 Thread kf4clo
I'd like to thank everyone that responded to my plea for help after a lightning strike knocked out K3 utility. After advice from the mailing list-and from k3 support-akio3 main board-daughter board and new serial-usb cable solved the problem. Thanks for everyone's help.