I got mine to work several years ago on Win 7. As I recall, I had to update both the firmware in the KRC2 and the utility program. It was tricky. I agree that Elecraft needs to clean up this situation.
Vic 4X6GP/K2VCO > On 21 Oct 2015, at 9:04 PM, John K9UWA <[email protected]> wrote: > > ATTENTION: Eric > > Elecraft has for several years been saying they were going to rewrite the > horrible KRC2 Utility Program that allows programming of the KRC2. And so > far they have failed to do so. Way back when about 4 years ago I did > manage ONCE to get the KRC2 Utility program to work and programmed > my KRC2. Yes today I would love to reprogram it to allow connection to a > SIX meter antenna. However as you say the program won't work. I tried on > Computer running XP and one running Windows7 both with direct real Serial > Port connection to the KRC2. No Luck for me. > > Eric many of us K3 users are using the KRC2 for band decoder to antenna > switching it sure would be nice if we could program the KRC2 easily to do > what we want. > > Thanks > John k9uwa > > >> I purchased a used KRC2 band decoder. Going through the tests in the >> manual, it works with the buttons on the KRC2, but I can not get the >> unit to communicate with my computer. I downloaded the software from >> Elecraft, using Windows 7 or 10 and real serial ports (not usb-serial). >> What am I doing wrong? or is the unit bad? I have not hooked up the >> auxbuss to the K3 yet, wanted to make sure the bandmap and serial port >> work first. >> >> Gordon -- N1MGO > > > John Goller, K9UWA & Jean Goller, N9PXF > Antique Radio Restorations > [email protected] > Visit our Web Site at: > http://www.JohnJeanAntiqueRadio.com > 4836 Ranch Road > Leo, IN 46765 > USA > 1-260-637-6426 > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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] ______________________________________________________________ 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]
