[Elecraft] Software updates

[Don Wilhelm]

Knut,

The functions of the K3 and K3S are the same, and will likely remain the 
same.  The differences are in the hardware, so a 2nd MCU file has been 
in place for some time to allow for a change in the microcontroller used 
in later K3s and the K3S.
I can envision this being expanded, not to change the functions, but to 
support minor differences in the hardware.  Part of the Elecraft 
"magic", such things are transparent to the user.

My point is that K3Utility sorts it all out, and does not have to be 
visible to the user, because the same steps to update firmware are used.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 2/24/2017 7:24 AM, ab2tc wrote:
> Hi Don,
>
> Hold on a second. Up to this point the firmware for the K3 and the K3S has
> been exactly the same. The firmware figures out at run time which features
> are available whether it being in the K3 or the  K3S and behaves
> accordingly. Is there something changed here? That would really complicate
> things.