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Roy Morris-6

Downloading K3 Config

I have downloaded the K3 Config information to MY DOCUMENTS. I renamed the file K3 Config. The file in MY DOCUMENTS was K3 Config.K3 Config. When I clicked on it I got the following:

To open this file Windows needs to know what program created it. Windows can go online to look up automatically, or you can manually select from a list of programs on your computer.

What do you want to do?

Use the web service to find the appropriate program.

Select the program from a list.

I renamed the file: K3 Config (I took the duplication away)

I then selected XML Editor from the list

The Config settings then appeared. Please help me find a better and easier way to retrieve my settings. Thanks. Roy Morris W4WFB

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Julian, G4ILO

Re: Downloading K3 Config

Roy Morris-6 wrote

I have downloaded the K3 Config information to MY DOCUMENTS. I renamed the file K3 Config. The file in MY DOCUMENTS was K3 Config.K3 Config. When I clicked on it I got the following:

To open this file Windows needs to know what program created it. Windows can go online to look up automatically, or you can manually select from a list of programs on your computer.
What do you want to do?
Use the web service to find the appropriate program.
Select the program from a list.

I renamed the file: K3 Config (I took the duplication away)
I then selected XML Editor from the list

The Config settings then appeared. Please help me find a better and easier way to retrieve my settings. Thanks. Roy Morris W4WFB

Since the only way to restore the saved configuration is by opening it in the K3 Utility "Restore K3 Configuration From...", the fact that Windows does not know what to do with files of this type is unimportant. The .K3Config file type that it is given ensures that it will not be mistakenly opened (and more disastrously, edited) by another application. Just start the K3 Utility and open the file from there. If you change the file type to something else when you save it, or by renaming it afterwards, it won't be found when you try to restore it.

The saved configuration is a plain text file and it can be opened in Notepad, in case you want to see what it looks like, but there is nothing useful - and quite a lot of harm - you can do to it in Notepad, so this is really not a good idea.

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Dick Dievendorff

Re: Downloading K3 Config

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The file is a text file, and you can open it in notepad without renaming it.

The saved configuration file is just text representation of a dump of a range of EEPROM addresses. It doesn’t help you understand what each K3 configuration setting is.

It’s intended use is for the K3 Utility’s Restore function.

Dick, K6KR

From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Roy Morris
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 1:43 PM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: [Elecraft] Downloading K3 Config

I have downloaded the K3 Config information to MY DOCUMENTS. I renamed the file K3 Config. The file in MY DOCUMENTS was K3 Config.K3 Config. When I clicked on it I got the following:

To open this file Windows needs to know what program created it. Windows can go online to look up automatically, or you can manually select from a list of programs on your computer.

What do you want to do?

Use the web service to find the appropriate program.

Select the program from a list.

I renamed the file: K3 Config (I took the duplication away)

I then selected XML Editor from the list

The Config settings then appeared. Please help me find a better and easier way to retrieve my settings. Thanks. Roy Morris W4WFB

Roy Morris-6

Re: Downloading K3 Config

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It was not clear that I could not download the K3 Config file for printing it out. I now understand that it was NOT intended to be printed out and should stay right in the K3 Utility only. Because I have downloaded this file to MY DOCUMENTS and renamed it, I may have corrupted the SAVE K3 CONFIGURATION AS... meaning the RESTORE K3 CONFIGURATION FROM.. may also be corrupted.

Can I just do another SAVE K3 CONFIGURATION AS... from my K3 to K3 UTILITY to correct my mess (and stop right there)? I certainly don't want to try a RESTORE to test it out. Roy Morris W4WFB

Don Wilhelm-4

Re: Downloading K3 Config

Roy,

If your K3 settings are OK, then the answer is YES - just save another
configuration file into a folder of your choosing.

73,
Don W3FPR

Roy Morris wrote:

> It was not clear that I could not download the K3 Config file for
> printing it out. I now understand that it was NOT intended to be
> printed out and should stay right in the K3 Utility only. Because I
> have downloaded this file to MY DOCUMENTS and renamed it, I may have
> corrupted the SAVE K3 CONFIGURATION AS... meaning the RESTORE K3
> CONFIGURATION FROM.. may also be corrupted.
> Can I just do another SAVE K3 CONFIGURATION AS... from my K3 to K3
> UTILITY to correct my mess (and stop right there)? I certainly don't
> want to try a RESTORE to test it out. Roy Morris W4WFB
>

Dick Dievendorff

Re: Downloading K3 Config

In reply to this post by Roy Morris-6

All will be well.

If you have not changed the file, you may just rename it to “MyConfig.K3Config” or something like that. I’d recommend the K3Config extension because that’s what all the other saved configurations have.

The file contains a CRC check to verify that it hasn’t been altered. If you’ve made changes to the file you shouldn’t be able to restore from it. During configuration restore the K3 Utility runs through the file once to verify that it hasn’t been altered, and only if it passes that check does it start storing configuration data into the rig. So don’ t worry too much about restoring from the wrong place.

The thing that you may want to change is the default folder location for subsequent save/restore. Here’s how I’d suggest finding it.

Open the K3 Utility and navigate to the “Firmware” tab. Click the “default” button. The file path that is in the “local folder for firmware files” is something that ends with \Elecraft\K3 Firmware. All the rest of the path is common with the default location for storing configuration data. Write this down someplace (or copy and paste it into a notepad window).

Now click the “configuration” tab and click “save configuration as”. At the top of the “Save As” dialog is a “Save In” combobox drop down. If you click the down arrow, you should open a tree view that you can navigate through to follow the same path as you wrote down in the earlier step. When you get to “Elecraft”, you should see “K3 Configuration” and “K3 Firmware”. Click “K3 Configuration”, that’s the default location to store configuration data.

Then go ahead and save a configuration. When that succeeds, the “default” location for saving and restoring firmware files will now be the place you just saved a configuration into.

If you wish, you may copy your earlier config file back to that folder and try to restore from it. If it complains of “corruption” or “modification”, then you’ve changed the file, and restore just won’t be able to use it.

There may be easier ways to accomplish this (and it takes longer to explain than to do), but this should get you back to where you were.

If this doesn’t work for you, I can help you navigate to the original K3 Configuration folder in another way.

Hope this helps!

73 de

Dick, K6KR

From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Roy Morris
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 6:39 PM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Downloading K3 Config

Can I just do another SAVE K3 CONFIGURATION AS... from my K3 to K3 UTILITY to correct my mess (and stop right there)? I certainly don't want to try a RESTORE to test it out. Roy Morris W4WFB