[Elecraft] K3S/N1MM communications failed.

[Jack Brindle]

Peter;

If you haven’t done so already, I strongly suggest you post this query to the N1MM reflector.
You may get a good response here, but that reflector is the place for N1MM questions, and I’d
bet you will get a quicker response in that forum.

73 & hope to Q in CWWCW!

- Jack, W6FB

> On Nov 23, 2016, at 2:42 PM, Peter Dougherty <Peter at w2irt.net> wrote:
> 
> My travel laptop upgraded itself to Windows 10 earlier this summer. I have
> had no occasion or reason to fully dismantle my home station to test it out
> until today, the day before I leave for CQWW in VE3 but I have a
> show-stopper problem that I can't seem to fix.
> 
> I have no communication between N1MM+ and the K3S, using the USB cable
> supplied by Elecraft. Last year it all worked 100% reliably under Windows 7.
> Since the upgrade something has obviously changed. 
> When I plug the K3S into the computer a new port shows up in Device manager
> (COM-9 in this case). I launch N1MM+ go into the configurer and select COM9,
> click SET and, using the same settings that work on my desktop system,
> nothing's happening. I'm using 38400, N-8-1, DTR=PTT, RTS=Always Off, Radio
> Nr. 1, Foot switch none, radio polling rate Normal. None of the checkboxes
> are checked. I have also selected both DTR and RTS to Always off, which has
> also worked in the past. Nothing. No CAT control, no CW send, nothing. I'm
> completely dead in the water. I am leaving tomorrow morning (Thursday) and
> need to get this going or I'm completely sunk.
> 
> Like I said, last year it worked 100% on the first try. Today, nothing.
> Other than the Windows 7 to Windows 10  forced "upgrade" in July, various
> forced patches, etc, and an update to N1MM+ yesterday nothing has been done
> to this computer in a year. No new hardware or software. Any help gratefully
> appreciated. Please feel free to contact me via my QRZ.com email address as
> well.
> ----------------------------------------------------
> Regards,
> Peter Dougherty, W2IRT/VE3THX.
> 
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