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

[Phil Wheeler]

PMFJI, Frank, I'm primarily a Mac user and OS X 
beta tester. But I do work with Windows because it 
will do some things I need (much better for 
working with DVDs for example -- and more ham 
radio apps).

So some time ago I installed Windows 10 Preview on 
my Win 8.1 machine (my main Windows computers are 
Windows 7, and will stay that way for a while, at 
least).  Windows 10 is an improvement over Win 
8.1, IMO -- and that's even after modifying Win 
8.1 to make the GUI work like Win 7 :-)

73, Phil W7OX

On 7/24/15 7:22 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> wrote:
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>> I have been using my K3S with Win 7 so far and decided to give the Mac a chance to play.
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>> 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.
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>> Now I connected the rdio to my Win 7 machine, and all is well again.
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>> Now, plug USB back into the Mac, re-read paragraph two above.
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>> 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!
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>> Part 2)
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>> 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.
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>> FWIW:  I have moved the modified KBPF3 and filters from my old K3 to the K3s yesterday and that is working just fine.
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>> …bill c   nr4c