[Elecraft] MAC Utility for KAT500

[Dauer, Edward]

Thanks, Phil, and all others who replied.  Borrowing a Windows laptop
wasn¹t easy but it worked; after which I went back at it with the Mac.  At
that point the OS X - based Utility recognized MCU 1.67, which was of
course resident in the KAT-500 by then, courtesy of Windows.  I have no
explanation for why it failed the first N times.  Probably operator error.
 Or a quantum tunnel into a previous time.  In any case, it¹s nice to have
the reflector and friends when you need it.  Tnx,

Ted, KN1CBR



>
>Ted,
>
>I have a Mac, I have a KAT500, and I have MCU 1.67 installed on my KAT500
>and I am using the KAT500 Utility program version 1.14.2.1.
>
>Everything works hunky dory.
>
>Now, I am not sure why the Elecraft web page suggests 1.14.2.20 except
>for the fact that it does denote the latest Windows release.  The
>difference between the .1 and .20 at the end of the Windows versus Mac
>releases may refer to a build number which is a common thing to include
>in the version identification (having been a programmer for almost 50
>years).  So, these different numbers may mean different builds which is
>not unusual since I think the software for the Windows versus the Mac
>(and Linux) are done by two different people -- or, at least it used to
>be two different people.  And, their build cycles could easily be
>different (and likely to be different).
>
>But, from my experience you can load 1.14.2.1 utility and use that to
>load up MCU 1.67.
>
>73, phil, K7PEH
>
>
>On Jun 1, 2014, at 3:28 PM, Dauer, Edward <edauer at law.du.edu> 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