A followup to my original post: I started VMWare and ran WIN8.1 and insetalled the latest Utility. No problems with the old K3.
Now to test the K3s….. With Win *.1 on Mac, both radios are normal. Something is not right in my Mac Utility setup. …bill c nr4c > On Jul 24, 2015, at 10:22 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > Bill you are not alone as a MAC user and I am NOT going to purchase a WIN 10 > box to do any work for ham radio. > > I have used the utility on my MacBookAir for the KX3 utility and love it. > > Frank KG9H > > >> On Jul 24, 2015, at 9:17 AM, Bill Conkling <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> >> I have been using my K3S with Win 7 so far and decided to give the Mac a >> chance to play. >> >> Downloaded the latest utility for the Mac (Latest OSX, Macbook Pro I7 >> w/16gigs) and convinced the Mac that I really did want to open this file. I >> selected the USB com port and my radio immediately went into TX mode and >> would not stop. I shut down the radio. Stated K3S again and it was still >> in TX. I unplugged the USB, radio still in transmit. Powered off rdio, >> power on again, still in TX. >> >> Now I connected the rdio to my Win 7 machine, and all is well again. >> >> Now, plug USB back into the Mac, re-read paragraph two above. >> >> I am a new user to the Mac and don’t know a lot about the comport details so >> this is probably something silly, but I need some assistance. Help! >> >> Part 2) >> >> Just to sav e time, I hooked up the K3 to Mac with KUSB cable, and sure >> enough, it also goes to TX when connected to the Mac. So it;s not the radio, >> must be a setting in the computer, a hiccup in the utility. >> >> >> >> FWIW: I have moved the modified KBPF3 and filters from my old K3 to the K3s >> yesterday and that is working just fine. >> >> …bill c nr4c >> ______________________________________________________________ >> 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] <mailto:[email protected]> ______________________________________________________________ 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]
