[Elecraft] Mac utility with K3S Puts K3S in TX mode!

[Bill Conkling]

A followup to my original post:

I started VMWare and ran WIN8.1 and insetalled the latest Utility.  No problems with the old K3.

Now to test the K3s…..

With Win *.1 on Mac, both radios are normal.

Something is not right in my Mac Utility setup.


…bill c  nr4c


> On Jul 24, 2015, at 10:22 AM, kg9hfrank at gmail.com wrote:
> 
> Bill you are not alone as a MAC user and I am NOT going to purchase a WIN 10 box to do any work for ham radio.
> 
> I have used the utility on my MacBookAir for the KX3 utility and love it.
> 
> Frank KG9H
> 
> 
>> On Jul 24, 2015, at 9:17 AM, Bill Conkling <nr4c at widomaker.com <mailto:nr4c at widomaker.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> I have been using my K3S with Win 7 so far and decided to give the Mac a chance to play.
>> 
>> Downloaded the latest utility for the Mac (Latest OSX, Macbook Pro I7 w/16gigs) and convinced the Mac that I really did want to open this file.  I selected the USB com port and my radio immediately went into TX mode and would not stop.  I shut down the radio.  Stated K3S again and it was still in TX.  I unplugged the USB, radio still in transmit. Powered off rdio, power on again, still in TX.
>> 
>> Now I connected the rdio to my Win 7 machine, and all is well again.
>> 
>> Now, plug USB back into the Mac, re-read paragraph two above.
>> 
>> I am a new user to the Mac and don’t know a lot about the comport details so this is probably something silly, but I need some assistance.  Help!
>> 
>> Part 2)
>> 
>> Just to sav e time, I hooked up the K3 to Mac with KUSB cable, and sure enough, it also goes to TX when connected to the Mac. So it;s not the radio, must be a setting in the computer, a hiccup in the utility.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> FWIW:  I have moved the modified KBPF3 and filters from my old K3 to the K3s yesterday and that is working just fine.
>> 
>> …bill c   nr4c
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