[Elecraft] Reverting from FW 4.83 to the Previous Release Version

[Phil Wheeler]

A followup on this: I've gotten lots of input and 
help on this issue, on list and off. A local ham 
with K3 experience, and who owns a KX3, came over 
and gave my K3 a listen yesterday. All is good. 
The issue was not in the new firmware but in my 
still newbie-level understanding of the K3 and how 
to set it up.

73, Phil w7ox

On 2/23/14, 9:29 AM, Phil Wheeler wrote:
> My K3/P3 arrived Friday. I listened a bit, 
> mostly on SSB but some on CW. I don't recall any 
> issues with how it sounded to me.
>
> Yesterday afternoon I finally got around to 
> installing the K3 Utility and P3 Utility on my 
> shack Win 8.1 PC. I discovered that MCU 4.83 had 
> been released and upgraded from the version my 
> K3 #8004 was delivered with.  All that went well 
> -- and I noticed that the DSP firmware was 
> updated, too, from msgs on the LCD.
>
> Last night I again listened to more CW and with 
> some settings the audio seemed "different", for 
> lack of a better term. Most likely this is due 
> to my newness to the K3 and some significant 
> hearing impairments (stone deaf in one ear and 
> the "good" one isn't so great), but I'd like to 
> wring it out and see if there is/was a difference.
>
> So I'd like to try installing the previous 
> release version (4.67 or 4.76) on my K3 and do 
> some A-B testing. The problem is that since my 
> K3 came with the earlier version installed, I 
> likely do not have the needed firmware files in 
> my computer to be loaded -- though reading at 
> the Elecraft website it looks possible to do 
> such a reversion if you do have them in your 
> computer
>
> My questions: Are the needed earlier files 
> available for download, and if they are, which 
> files are they and how do I go about telling the 
> K3 utility to load them (I assume it's akin to 
> installing a beta version but as a K3 owner of 
> 48 hours I've not had the opportunity to load 
> beta firmware).
>
> 73, Phil w7ox
>
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