[Elecraft] [Elecraft-K3] K3s won't connect to PC

[Bill Johnson]

I have always loved self-healing electronics.  By starting from scratch you removed the corruption issue.  Way to go.

73,
Bill
K9YEQ

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-----Original Message-----
From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net <elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net> On Behalf Of KE8G
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 11:11 AM
To: donwilh at embarqmail.com
Cc: Elecraft <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] [Elecraft-K3] K3s won't connect to PC

I want to thank all who offered suggestions and information, it was a pleasure to reach out for help and have so many folks willing to help!

I contacted Elecraft yesterday and ran things past them.  I was given a few suggestions, and decided to "pretend" it was a new set-up.  I am not sure what was going on, but with the USB cable plugged into the same USB port on the same computer, when I turned the radio on, it went through a complete new set-up; including installing the drivers and audio CODECs.  It even gave me the same COM port number.

I am going to attribute it to divine intervention, as I did a lot of praying for it to be something simple!

Things are working as normal, and a "boat load" of toroids are on the way!!

Thanks again.
73 de Jim - KE8G

On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 6:32 PM Don Wilhelm <donwilh at embarqmail.com> wrote:

> Checking communications capability with K3 Utility is always a good 
> first step when you have problems with communications with the K3/K3S 
> (similar for KX3/KX2).
> If the Utility can communicate, then you should know to look to your 
> computer applications and their setup information for the problem.
>
> If the Utility cannot connect, it is either a computer port assignment 
> problem, a USB to serial adapter problem (including the adapter built 
> into the K3S) or a K3/K3S problem.
>
> So depending on the results of the K3 Utility "Test Communications", 
> you will know where to look for the problem.  Often it is a computer 
> problem such as Tony discovered.
>
> 73,
> Don W3FPR
>
> On 3/23/2019 12:33 PM, tony.kaz--- via Elecraft wrote:
> > Don,
> > Using the K3 Utility is good advice.
> > Yesterday for some reason when I had updated WIN10, the one port 
> > changed
> numbers. And of all the ports I use for both K3's and all the programs 
> and hardware, that was the only one that changed from 16 to 12. Go 
> figure. Went into Device Manager and changed the port number back to what it was. Weird.
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