Reading this thread, I wonder how many actually do recognize this!
I was a field tester for the K3 and therefore also for the K3 utility.
I'm a retired software developer, and I had great respect for the
developer of the K3 utility as I watched him great pains to develop a
robust program with the ability to recover from almost anything that
flaky serial and serial/usb connections could throw at it. Nobody wants
to brick your K3/KX3, least of all Elecraft!
Remember, software is a cost center for them, not a profit center. And
so is support. Do you think they want to take calls of the form "I built
my firmware loader following the specifications to a T (except...) and
now my K3 has become unresponsive?"
In my opinion Elecraft went over and above by providing versions for
Windows, 32-bit Linux and Mac OS. Some manufacturers would give you
Windows only, and it would be full of bugs, too!
73,
Vic, 4X6GP/K2VCO
Rehovot, Israel
http://www.qsl.net/k2vco/
On 8 Apr 2016 23:24, Jessie Oberreuter wrote:
Fortunately, we recognize that Elecraft is a /radio/ company, /not/ a
consumer software company, and we don't want to ask them to spend time
supporting dozens of firmware loaders. Ideally, we would like to see
or, with access to the protocol documentation, develop an open-source
library for updating the firmware. Then we can build our own firmware
loaders for whatever platforms we choose.
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