[Elecraft] K3 Beta Firmware

[Don Wilhelm]

Lee,

In my experience, there have been many beta releases that could have 
been named as a production release.
My guess is that in the 'busy-ness' of the summer and autumn with 
vacations and all (Wayne and Lyle do need some R & R), none were 
selected.  The creation of a formal production release requires 
paperwork to be processed for the manufacturing end of the business, so 
it is more complex than just 'naming' it a production release.  The 
world of K3 firmware is vastly different than the computer world of 
operating system upgrades.

May I suggest you try the new 3.44 release and call it your 'personal 
release level' to take advantage of the added functions.  You can always 
back-level easily if you have a problem.
Alternately, monitor the reflector here for a week or so, and any 
problems will be revealed by those already using it.  There have been no 
problems found and reported by the Field Test group, so I expect few 
problems from other users.

OTOH, if you are satisfied with the functions available in your current 
firmware, then why upgrade?  No one will force you to upgrade.  The only 
consequence is if you report a problem that has been fixed in a 
subsequent release (either production or beta), you will simply be 
encouraged to upgrade in order to fix that problem.

73,
Don W3FPR

Lee Trout wrote:
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>   And Don, has there been no stable beta release sine May
> that could be issued as the new production release?
>
> 73, Lee (K9CM)
>   
>