[Elecraft] K3 Firmware upload

[Don Rasmussen]

Ut-Oh - the beans have been spilled!

.NET, and version 2 no less. I do some .NET coding for
work in VB es C#. 

It is not trivial getting your computer setup on this,
it is, however free - courtesy of M. Bill Gates,
esquire. ;-)

This is kind of an elephant gun approach, I assumed
some small file that gets stuffed through the serial
port from any DOS or Windows PC directly into the K3
memory.

Nonetheless, it's a very elegent solution and it opens
up the host computer to many other .NET applications
and even some programming if you care to do it. 

I'd suggest backing up the system before and after the
update - YMMV...


[Elecraft] K3 Firmware upload
Lyle Johnson kk7p at wavecable.com 
Wed Jul 25 17:13:08 EDT 2007 

Previous message: [Elecraft] K3 Firmware upload 

>  > The PC interfaces to the K3 also needs an
Internet connection.
> 
> Does PC mean Windows, or are other operating systems
supported? Which 
> Windows versions are supported?

More specifically, the program which updates the K3
needs access to the updated files.  If the computer
that is used to update the K3 is also on 
the Internet, then the process is very simple - the
program automatically looks in the right place on the
'net.

If not, you have to copy the files from the 'net -- or
wherever else they may be found -- to the computer
that will be used to update the K3.

The *current* version of the update application
requires Windows XP with .NET 2.0.  This has been the
standard distribution of Windows since  2001, and is
still an available distribution.  .NET 2.0 is
available for free from Microsoft via their website
and is already loaded on a very large percentage of
Windows XP computers already.

This was the most expedient way to get the update
application written and deployed to the development
team and field testers.  Support is planned for other
Windows versions, as well as other OSes, but right now

the engineering effort is going into making the K3
better.

However, I doubt there will ever be a version for my
Acorn RISC PC  running RISCOS 3.70...

73,

Lyle KK7P