K3 Utility Not Connecting (Virtual Windows Environment may be a factor)

[Rick Tavan-2]

Looking for a sounding board here to jump-start my brain. I run Windows 7
under VMware Fusion on a Macbook Pro. Although it's a difficult environment
to maintain, most Windows software works well. I run RemoteRig boxes to
connect a local K3 acting as a control head to a remote K3. The RemoteRig
box presents the remote K3's serial port as a local port (COM12 today) and
both Writelog and N1MM+ can connect to it and control the remote radio.
Right now, however, K3 Utility and K3 Memory Editor are not connecting to
it. (Yes, I terminated the loggers before trying the Elecraft apps.) I'm
pretty sure this configuration used to work, so I'm baffled. Usually it's
the other way around - a COM port has changed and I use K3 Utility to
discover which new port number to specify in the logger. But today the
logger connects and Utility doesn't.

If I eliminate the RemoteRig boxes and associated K3 Remote firmware, both
K3 Utility and the logger connect to the local K3 just fine from the
virtual Windows OS. I'm running FW Rev 5.55 on both K3's.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

/Rick N6XI

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Rick Tavan
Truckee, CA
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[Larry (K8UT)]

Rick,

My limited experience with Elecraft's utilities is that they only work when
direct connected to serial ports that can tolerate the baudrate
guesstimation process that occurs immediately upon the utility's launch. The
K3UTIL jumps between 4800, 9600, 19200, and 38400 baud trying to establish a
connection.

I suspect this could be resolved for non-conventional serial connections
(virtual serial ports, remote connections... ) if K3UTIL.EXE could employ an
optional command line argument to disable baudrate bingo and force a fixed
baud rate . "K3UTIL.EXE /9600"

-larry (K8UT)
-----Original Message-----
From: Rick Tavan
Sent: Monday, January 02, 2017 7:04 PM
To: Elecraft Reflector
Subject: [Elecraft] K3 Utility Not Connecting (Virtual Windows
Environmentmay be a factor)

Looking for a sounding board here to jump-start my brain. I run Windows 7
under VMware Fusion on a Macbook Pro. Although it's a difficult environment
to maintain, most Windows software works well. I run RemoteRig boxes to
connect a local K3 acting as a control head to a remote K3. The RemoteRig
box presents the remote K3's serial port as a local port (COM12 today) and
both Writelog and N1MM+ can connect to it and control the remote radio.
Right now, however, K3 Utility and K3 Memory Editor are not connecting to
it. (Yes, I terminated the loggers before trying the Elecraft apps.) I'm
pretty sure this configuration used to work, so I'm baffled. Usually it's
the other way around - a COM port has changed and I use K3 Utility to
discover which new port number to specify in the logger. But today the
logger connects and Utility doesn't.

If I eliminate the RemoteRig boxes and associated K3 Remote firmware, both
K3 Utility and the logger connect to the local K3 just fine from the
virtual Windows OS. I'm running FW Rev 5.55 on both K3's.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

/Rick N6XI

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Rick Tavan
Truckee, CA
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