[Elecraft] Loading Old Configuration Into New K3S

[Kevin Stover]

People want to reduce the amount of button pushing to a minimum.
Remember when your rig was new and how long it took to get the settings 
the way you wanted?
Buy a used K3 or a new K3s and it takes some time to set it up like you 
like it.

I absolutely hate swapping CD's and DVD's loading software on a new PC. 
Norton Ghost was the best thing since sliced bread (RIP). Add some 
software to the computer...make a new image of the hard drive. Hard 
drive needs replaced for whatever reason, and it's the component most 
likely to fail, load the image, operating system and all, on the new 
drive in about 20 minutes. If I tried that on a new PC with different 
hardware, processor, video cards, sound cards, Ethernet cards it would 
fail miserably and I'd find myself in driver hell.

Since there is a difference between configuration and factory alignment 
data on the K3(s) maybe a utility within a utility just for alignment 
data. This would only work if both new and old rigs are physically 
configured identically. How do you load config data which contains 
information about the second receiver when there is no second receiver?

On 4/17/2016 2:03 AM, Gary wrote:
> I kinda like the way it is and this is my thoughts:
> If I had 2 K3's (any vintage) and I was to check my setup, what if both are not identical?, maybe one has a second rcvr and may different filters?
> Having 2 utilities on my PC would not bother me.
> If I have separate PC's for each, then again I see no problem.
> I rarely use the utility these days, when I do, I save a config copy.
> Again if I had 2 K3's, I don't see an advantage in being able to copy from one trcvr to another....i can see where I could make a mistake and mess things up though.
> So can somebody please explain to me what I may be missing or perhaps an example of how I could benefit from what is being discussed.
> Sadly as I get older I seem to be getting slower...:-)
> Gary
>


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