Thanks, Phil, and all others who replied. Borrowing a Windows laptop wasn¹t easy but it worked; after which I went back at it with the Mac. At that point the OS X - based Utility recognized MCU 1.67, which was of course resident in the KAT-500 by then, courtesy of Windows. I have no explanation for why it failed the first N times. Probably operator error. Or a quantum tunnel into a previous time. In any case, it¹s nice to have the reflector and friends when you need it. Tnx,
Ted, KN1CBR > >Ted, > >I have a Mac, I have a KAT500, and I have MCU 1.67 installed on my KAT500 >and I am using the KAT500 Utility program version 1.14.2.1. > >Everything works hunky dory. > >Now, I am not sure why the Elecraft web page suggests 1.14.2.20 except >for the fact that it does denote the latest Windows release. The >difference between the .1 and .20 at the end of the Windows versus Mac >releases may refer to a build number which is a common thing to include >in the version identification (having been a programmer for almost 50 >years). So, these different numbers may mean different builds which is >not unusual since I think the software for the Windows versus the Mac >(and Linux) are done by two different people -- or, at least it used to >be two different people. And, their build cycles could easily be >different (and likely to be different). > >But, from my experience you can load 1.14.2.1 utility and use that to >load up MCU 1.67. > >73, phil, K7PEH > > >On Jun 1, 2014, at 3:28 PM, Dauer, Edward <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The current firmware version for the KAT500 is apparently MCU 1.67. To >>access it requires the KAT500 Utility version 14.2.20. That, however, >>seems to be available only for Windows. The latest utility version for >>Mac OS X on the website is 1.14.2.1. When I run that, the latest >>firmware version it finds is 1.41. Unfortunately 1.41 seems not to give >>the KAT500 the capability of tracking the frequency setting from the K3 >>as it tunes - with F/W 1.41 retunes only on the first dit. Am I doing >>something wrong? Is there a way to get 1.67 using a Mac (short of >>installing Windows on the Mac)? >> >> Thanks for whatever advice might be offered . . . >> >> Ted, KN1CBR ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [email protected]
