[Elecraft] KAT500 Firmware Revisions for MAC OS X

[Brian Alsop]

Guys,

I apologize if my posting offended anybody.

This is not such a far fetched question.  In fact my son-in-law has such 
a household.  It made video chats with our 4 year old grandson a real 
problem.  He won't even use SKYPE and insists on FACETIME.

So how was this resolved?  He loaned me a 1 kilobuck MAC laptop....
Now we can do FACETIME too.

73 de Brian/K3KO


On 6/1/2014 22:59, Scott Manthe wrote:
> There should be no reason that Ted should have to borrow a PC in order
> to update the firmware in his KAT500. The OSX utility should have the
> same functionality as the Windows version. In any case, there's also no
> reason he should have to put up with a lack of courtesy when asking a
> question on the reflector.
>
> Ted- Did you try searching for the firmware manually?
>
> 73,
> Scott, N9AA
>
>
> On 6/1/14 6:35 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
>
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