[Elecraft] K3s USB failure?

[hawley, charles j jr]

Would a backup reload help here?

Chuck Jack Hawley 
KE9UW

Sent from my iPhone, cjack 

> On Jun 23, 2019, at 2:32 PM, Peter Dougherty <lists at w2irt.net> wrote:
> 
> Hi guys,
> I hope this is a case of pilot error here, but I think my K3s might have
> suffered damage today and I need help in getting this back alive.
> 
> After I moved the radio out to the deck for Field Day everything worked
> fine. Moved it back inside and I have no USB connectivity to any software
> app that normally connects to. When I plug the USB-B cable into the USB port
> on the back of the K3s I hear the Windows sound (twice) indicating that it's
> connecting, the port shows up as it's supposed to in the device manager
> (COM-5 on the desktop, COM-3 on the laptop), but neither N1MM+, DX Lab Suite
> Commander, or the K3 Utility can find the radio. I'm at a loss to understand
> what could have happened here, but I'm completely dead in the water now. In
> the menu, RS232 is set up USB.
> 
> The sound card portion of the USB port is fine (I can get audio from the K3s
> into the computer, and generated .wav files play from the computer over the
> air. I just have no CAT control, either way.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------
> 
> Regards,
> Peter Dougherty
> 
> 
> 
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