[Elecraft] Elecraft Utilities

[Vic Rosenthal 4X6GP/K2VCO]

Reading this thread, I wonder how many actually do recognize this!

I was a field tester for the K3 and therefore also for the K3 utility.
I'm a retired software developer, and I had great respect for the 
developer of the K3 utility as I watched him great pains to develop a 
robust program with the ability to recover from almost anything that 
flaky serial and serial/usb connections could throw at it. Nobody wants 
to brick your K3/KX3, least of all Elecraft!

Remember, software is a cost center for them, not a profit center. And 
so is support. Do you think they want to take calls of the form "I built 
my firmware loader following the specifications to a T (except...) and 
now my K3 has become unresponsive?"

In my opinion Elecraft went over and above by providing versions for 
Windows, 32-bit Linux and Mac OS. Some manufacturers would give you 
Windows only, and it would be full of bugs, too!

73,
Vic, 4X6GP/K2VCO
Rehovot, Israel
http://www.qsl.net/k2vco/

On 8 Apr 2016 23:24, Jessie Oberreuter wrote:
> Fortunately, we recognize that Elecraft is a /radio/ company, /not/ a
> consumer software company, and we don't want to ask them to spend time
> supporting dozens of firmware loaders.  Ideally, we would like to see
> or, with access to the protocol documentation, develop an open-source
> library for updating the firmware. Then we can build our own firmware
> loaders for whatever platforms we choose.