[Elecraft] K3 Utility vs macOS Catalina

[David Ferrington, M0XDF]

Sorry, if someone mentioned this, but the original KUSB uses a Prolific chipset.
That’s always been temperamental. Plugable.com have drivers for 10.15.3 but you have to buy them and I haven’t tried them.

73 de David, M0XDF
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> On 28 Mar 2020, at 16:08, John Woodard <john.l.woodard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Don,
>   I just upgraded to 10.15.4 and launched K3 Utility. It loaded fine, but
> I noticed that the options under the Configuration and Calibration tabs
> were grayed out. I switched to the Port tab and selected Test
> Communications. When I got the positive response back from the K3, the
> options under Configuration and Calibration were no longer grayed out.
> Everything seems to be working fine now.
> 
> 73 de John, WK8A
> 
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 7:05 PM Don Putnick <donnieput at gmail.com <mailto:donnieput at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>> I'm working with Rob at Elecraft on this, but I'm trying to gather more
>> data for us. When I open the K3 Utility under Catalina, nothing is
>> displayed. If I go down to the dock, right click on the utility, then
>> select "Show all windows", the utility main screen opens. BUT if I click on
>> the screen, it closes immediately. The KAT500 Utility works just fine, so I
>> don't think its the usb-to-serial cable or the driver. And the K3 Utility
>> works correctly under macOS Sierra. Anyone else experiencing this?
>> 73 Don NA6Z
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