[Elecraft] KAT500 Firmware Revisions for MAC OS X

[Phil Wheeler]

Sad but true, Brian -- and not so much with 
Elecraft who do provide support for Windows, OS X 
and Linux. I purchased a really inexpensive ($280) 
HP laptop for my shack, even though I mostly use 
MacBooks: There's just too much Windows software 
for ham radio out there to not have Windows available.

Phil W7OX

On 6/1/14, 3:35 PM, Brian Alsop wrote:
> Are WINDOWS PC's banned from your household?
>
> Certainly you know somebody who owns a WINDOW's 
> laptop.
>
> If the situation were reversed and I needed an 
> APPLE computer for a few minutes to install new 
> firmware, I'd beg or borrow one.
>
> 73 de Brian/K3KO
>
> On 6/1/2014 22:28, Dauer, Edward wrote:
>> The current firmware version for the KAT500 is 
>> apparently MCU 1.67.  To access it requires the 
>> KAT500 Utility version 14.2.20.  That, however, 
>> seems to be available only for Windows.  The 
>> latest utility version for Mac OS X on the 
>> website is 1.14.2.1.  When I run that, the 
>> latest firmware version it finds is 1.41.  
>> Unfortunately 1.41 seems not to give the KAT500 
>> the capability of tracking the frequency 
>> setting from the K3 as it tunes - with F/W 1.41 
>> retunes only on the first dit.  Am I doing 
>> something wrong?  Is there a way to get 1.67 
>> using a Mac (short of installing Windows on the 
>> Mac)?
>>
>> Thanks for whatever advice might be offered . . .
>>
>> Ted, KN1CBR