[Elecraft] Com Port Problems

[Lyn Norstad]

Peter -

If you're sure that the problem is not what we addressed, then I suggest you reinstall Windows 11.  Presumably you're using the " Pro " edition.  If not, switch to that one.  The latest build is # 22000.778 released on 06/23/2022 (last week).

Instructions here:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/june-23-2022-kb5014668-os-build-22000-778-preview-2b5f1da6-d602-48b4-b443-96b460e3c38d

73
Lyn, W0LEN

-----Original Message-----
From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Peter Dougherty (W2IRT)
Sent: Friday, July 01, 2022 5:22 PM
To: 'Wilson Lamb'; 'elecraft'
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Com Port Problems

The problem isn't the Elecraft radio, or the COM ports, it's a defect of some nature within Windows 11 that has suddenly manifested itself. I've tried all the usual troubleshooting problems and no-go, and even a Microsoft 2nd Level guy spent three hours with me on the phone and did it all again and still couldn’t' find it. Making things work "once" isnt' too difficult. Making everything work 100% reliably *repeatedly*, as it has been for years, is the problem.

I really hate the fact that it took SO long for ham radio manufacturers to move away from RS-232 to pure USB, and only recently to TCP/IP, which is the correct way of doing things in my opinion.

 - pjd

-----Original Message-----
From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net <elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net> On Behalf Of Wilson Lamb via Elecraft
Sent: Friday, July 1, 2022 2:18 PM
To: elecraft <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: [Elecraft] Com Port Problems


Please read my rant about Ham Qualifications and Technology. 
We are at the mercy of MANY programmers and "software engineers." 
The operating system people have no resistance to making things steadily more obscure and complicated. 
They don't know or care what the programmers of our many programs are doing and have little incentive to find out. 
The programmers typically have only a nodding acquaintance with what the Operating System really does and don't have time/ability to find out. 
WE are way out on a thin limb that gets more and more likely to break or sag down to the ground. 
All the people mentioned above are whittling away at the limb, each contributing to its weakness/impending breakage, and none have much incentive to help US. 
I really hope you find it and I guarantee, if you do, there will be a gotcha that someone will tell you should have seen and that will make you feel inadequate!  In this area, we are all inadequate! 
I know this doesn't help.  It's meant as sympathy. 
I have been building and using computers since the 50s, when I helped build one that used relays and I still have NO interest in software except to say what it should do, at which I've been pretty successful. 
Good luck and remember, there are knobs on the radio and they will probably work for you, since the software in the radio has likely had a few years to get sorted out and the worst bugs found. 
WL
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