[Elecraft] K3S Sound Devices Issue

[Rich]

I did not take the comment to disable WinUpdates.  I now what to look 
for in the future.  Nothing really broke it just removed my "named" K3 
sound devices and replaced them.

All is good once I realized what happened.

Rich

K3RWN


On 3/14/2018 21:21 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote:
> I do not recommend disabling updates unless your ham station computer 
> is not connected to the internet.
> Most ham computers ARE connected to the internet, and updates are 
> necessary to keep up with security issues.
> If you are developing software, then an internet isolated computer is 
> necessary.
>
> As one for-instance, how do you keep up with DX spots if you are not 
> connected to the internet.
>
> Updates may cause some problems with your configurations and drivers, 
> but that is a minor problem compared to a virus attack that can 
> disable the computer.
>
> 73,
> Don W3FPR
>
> On 3/14/2018 9:05 PM, Bill Johnson wrote:
>> I don't recommend disabling updates as you need the latest patches 
>> included to protect your OS.  Deferment only last for, I believe 60 
>> days.   See my other recommendation posted earlier.
>>
>> 73,
>> Bill
>> K9YEQ
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net 
>> <elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net> On Behalf Of Rich
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 8:41 PM
>> To: donwilh at embarqmail.com; Elecraft <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
>> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3S Sound Devices Issue
>>
>> Thank you.  I never even thought about Win updates.
>>
>> Rich
>>
>>
>> On 3/13/2018 20:03 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote:
>>> The only way I can think of to avoid problems like that is to disable
>>> Windows updates.
>>>
>>> Yes, this is a computer related situation, and not a K3S situation.
>>>
>>> 73,
>>> Don W3FPR
>>>
>>> On 3/13/2018 2:38 PM, Rich wrote:
>>>> I think this issue is Win10 related but this seems to be the place to
>>>> ask the question.
>>>>
>>>> I had my K3 upgraded to the "s" last summer.   Once Windows created
>>>> the USB sound device I renamed them to K3 Receive Audio and K3
>>>> Transmit Audio.   Everything was working fine.
>>>>
>>>> Last night I was trying to work some RTTY and found that MMTTY was
>>>> not decoding RTTY.   After much confusion I realized that Windows (I
>>>> guess) created another sound device called USB Microphone and it was
>>>> ignoring the original K3 Receive Audio device which still existed.
>>>>
>>>> Has anyone seen this happen?
>>>>
>>>> Is there a way to avoid it happening again?
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