Checking on the available K3 firmware this morning, I saw that a Beta 4.67 is available. After downloading and attempting the update, the MCU load failed (first time for me). After a few more tries and failures I successfully loaded MCU 4.61, FPF 1.15, and DSP1 2.81 so I knew the K3 was fine. :-)
Watching the K3 Utility dialog boxes I saw that file 'hmcu0467b.hex' was being loaded. Looking in the directory, I saw that file 'hmcu0467.hex' also was present and 17 minutes newer. "Hmmmm", sez I, so after deleting 'hmcu0467b.hex', MCU 4.67, FPF 1.15, and DSP1 2.81 firmware files all loaded correctly. I am using the "Elecraft K3 Utility for Linux Version 1.12.9.22", if that matters. As the file size between 'hmcu0467b.hex' and 'hmcu0467.hex' is the same (but the "diff" utility shows a lot of differences), the utility apparently chooses 'hmcu0467b.hex' by determining that the extra character makes it a later file. In this particular case, it happens to be earlier and this K3, S/N 4762, didn't like it at all. On the plus side, I now know how to recover from a bad MCU load, the first time this has happened to me in over 2 1/2 years of owning my K3. ;-) 73, de Nate, N0NB >> -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Ham radio, Linux, bikes, and more: http://www.n0nb.us ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
