[Elecraft] KRC2 rs232 to cpu not working

[John K9UWA]

ATTENTION: Eric

Elecraft has for several years been saying they were going to rewrite the 
horrible KRC2 Utility Program that allows programming of the KRC2. And so 
far they have failed to do so. Way back when about 4 years ago I did 
manage ONCE to get the KRC2 Utility program to work and programmed 
my KRC2. Yes today I would love to reprogram it to allow connection to a 
SIX meter antenna. However as you say the program won't work. I tried on 
Computer running XP and one running Windows7 both with direct real Serial 
Port connection to the KRC2. No Luck for me. 

Eric many of us K3 users are using the KRC2 for band decoder to antenna 
switching it sure would be nice if we could program the KRC2 easily to do 
what we want.

Thanks
John k9uwa


> I purchased a used KRC2 band decoder.   Going through the tests in the 
> manual, it works with the buttons on the KRC2, but I can not get the 
> unit to communicate with my computer.  I downloaded the software from 
> Elecraft, using Windows 7 or 10 and real serial ports (not usb-serial).  
> What am I doing wrong? or is the unit bad?  I have not hooked  up the 
> auxbuss to the K3 yet, wanted to make sure the bandmap and serial port 
> work first.
> 
> Gordon -- N1MGO


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