[Elecraft] KX3 Mac Utility - I Give Up

Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ, Elecraft eric at elecraft.com
Thu May 23 20:18:58 EDT 2013


Our KUSB and KXUSB adapters use the FTDI chip set.

73,

Eric
elecraft.com

On 5/23/2013 2:39 PM, Peter Lambert wrote:
> If you are using USB to serial gizmo get a genuine FTDI one (you can buy
> them from digikey).  I've had lots of strange issues with serial SW since
> "real" serial ports disappeared.  They all ended up being dodgy drivers for
> the cheapy serial things.  The FTDI USB devices have 100% fixed these
> problems.
>
> Peter  VK4JD
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> [mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Joel Black
> Sent: Thursday, 23 May 2013 8:19 PM
> To: elecraft
> Subject: [Elecraft] KX3 Mac Utility - I Give Up
>
> This being the first time I have used the new Mac KX3 Utility (v1.13.4.29),
> I still cannot get it to go through an entire load of new FW.  It gets about
> 1/2-way through the DSP update and quits.  I only tried once, it quits at
> roughly the same spot as in the past.
>
> I've heard all the "it works fine here" responses so I realize the program
> works.  It just doesn't work for me.
>
> Uncle!  I give up - Boot-camping into Windows.
>
> 73,
> Joel - W4JBB
>
>
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