[Elecraft] Downloading K3 Config

[Dick Dievendorff]

All will be well.

 

If you have not changed the file, you may just rename it to
"MyConfig.K3Config" or something like that. I'd recommend the K3Config
extension because that's what all the other saved configurations have.

 

The file contains a CRC check to verify that it hasn't been altered.  If
you've made changes to the file you shouldn't be able to restore from it.
During configuration restore the K3 Utility runs through the file once to
verify that it hasn't been altered, and only if it passes that check does it
start storing configuration data into the rig. So don' t worry too much
about restoring from the wrong place.

 

The thing that you may want to change is the default folder location for
subsequent save/restore.  Here's how I'd suggest finding it.

 

Open the K3 Utility and navigate to the "Firmware" tab.  Click the "default"
button.  The file path that is in the "local folder for firmware files" is
something that ends with \Elecraft\K3 Firmware. All the rest of the path is
common with the default location for storing configuration data.    Write
this down someplace (or copy and paste it into a notepad window).

 

Now click the "configuration" tab and click "save configuration as".   At
the top of the "Save As" dialog is a "Save In" combobox drop down.  If you
click the down arrow, you should open a tree view that you can navigate
through to follow the same path as you wrote down in the earlier step.  When
you get to "Elecraft", you should see "K3 Configuration" and "K3 Firmware".
Click "K3 Configuration", that's the default location to store configuration
data.

 

Then go ahead and save a configuration.  When that succeeds, the "default"
location for saving and restoring firmware files will now be the place you
just saved a configuration into.

 

If you wish, you may copy your earlier config file back to that folder and
try to restore from it.  If it complains of "corruption" or "modification",
then you've changed the file, and restore just won't be able to use it.

 

There may be easier ways to accomplish this (and it takes longer to explain
than to do), but this should get you back to where you were.

 

If this doesn't work for you, I can help  you navigate to the original K3
Configuration folder in another way.

 

Hope this helps!

 

73 de 

Dick, K6KR

 

 

From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Roy Morris
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 6:39 PM
To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Downloading K3 Config

 

It was not clear that I could not download the K3 Config file for printing
it out.  I now understand that it was NOT intended to be printed out and
should stay right in the K3 Utility only.  Because I have downloaded this
file to MY DOCUMENTS and renamed it, I may have corrupted the SAVE K3
CONFIGURATION AS... meaning the RESTORE K3 CONFIGURATION FROM.. may also be
corrupted.  

Can I just do another SAVE K3 CONFIGURATION AS... from my K3 to K3 UTILITY
to correct my mess (and stop right there)?  I certainly don't want to try a
RESTORE to test it out.  Roy Morris  W4WFB

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