[Elecraft] Loading Old Configuration Into New K3S

[brian]

Everybody is making arguments for why it can't be done.
I'd like to hear arguments for why it can be done.

Clearly someone (Elecraft and perhaps others) knows enough about the K3 
and K3S differences and various permutations to do this.

Remember when one had to configure xtal filters manually and do TX/RX 
calibrations manually.  It was a real pain.  Those features were 
automated.

Several months ago I spent a couple weeks trying to make a newer K3 
(different serial number of course) have the same parameters as an older 
K3.  I'm not sure it's done yet.  Going from a K3 to K3s would probably 
take as long or longer.

This process would start with a dump of the older rig's configuration 
parameters.  I don't think it's asking too much to make such a program 
available.  (Yes guys have alluded to some non-free programs which 
proportedly do this. Not about to pay..)  When one is done with 
configuring the new rig than dump that too.  Some kind of automatic 
comparison program for the two files would be nice too.

73 de Brian/K3KO


On 4/17/2016 14:16 PM, Kevin Stover wrote:
> 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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