[Elecraft] KAT500 Firmware Revisions for MAC OS X

[Phil Wheeler]

Be careful, Brian. I bought one for my cousin to 
use, an iBook, back in 2005. He passed away before 
I was able to give it to him. I started using it 
just to see what the fuss was all about. I was 
hooked -- and none of my MacBooks have cost less 
than 2 kilobucks as outfitted. Beware :-)

My main MacBook is dual-boot into Windows 7. 
There's just too much software I use tethering me 
to the Windows world.

73, Phil W7OX

On 6/1/14, 4:38 PM, Brian Alsop wrote:
> 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
>>
>> ______