[Elecraft] K3 firmware upgrade speeds and problems

[WILLIS COOKE]

It is not a matter of blaming Elecraft, K1EL, Green Heron, the various software authors or any other ham radio vendor or person.  It is a matter of trying to find the combination that will work and hoping that someone is smart enough to know how, or lucky enough to stumble on  the secret, or that collective wisdom is better than each of us trying to go it alone.  It is no use complaining to Microsoft, HP, Dell or any of the other computer vendors who would tell us to forget Ham Radio and spend our time playing World of Warcraft or some other games where they can make multi-bucks.  So, we try to get wisdom from some one who might care.  Sometimes it works, sometimes it is misunderstood as attacking the hands that feed us.
 Willis 'Cookie' Cooke 
K5EWJ 




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From: Guy Olinger K2AV <olinger at bellsouth.net>
To: Dick Williams <k8ztt at mho.com>
Cc: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Sent: Wed, November 25, 2009 5:48:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 firmware upgrade speeds and problems

The real rub for USB serial converters is poor drivers and poor
individual bios, taken together with an a Windows OS that historically
does poorly with critical slow-speed hardware timing.

I've watched K3 programs and the K3 be blamed over and over on this
reflector, but we are making Aptos responsible for poor code by
Microsoft, hardware manufacturers, and bios writers.  The only
question that can really be aimed at Elecraft is whether Aptos app
builders can talk to the very willing K3 *IN SPITE OF* an individual
driver, bios, or OS.

Every time the OS changes, and with every new motherboard, we get to
start over from scratch.  And blame Elecraft.  Perhaps it's what they
get for being the only one of those who can actually be talked to?

73, Guy.