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Dave Moorman

"Serial port is closed"

Hello, Elecraft -

Working on getting the K3 hooked up to a Dell Latitude laptop but can’t seem to make a connection using the K3 Utility. Using the serial to USB adapter cable. On the K3 Utility port page, no ports show up, and there is a notation at the bottom, “Serial port is closed”.

Do you have any suggestions for how to proceed in making a connection?

Thanks,

Dave K9SW
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Mike Reublin NF4L

Re: "Serial port is closed"

Dave -

What version of WIndows are you running? What does device manager say? Is the adapter Prolific or FTDI? Do you have the correct driver installed?

73, Mike NF4L

> On Apr 21, 2015, at 3:09 AM, K9SW <[hidden email]> wrote:
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> Hello, Elecraft -
>
> Working on getting the K3 hooked up to a Dell Latitude laptop but can’t seem to make a connection using the K3 Utility. Using the serial to USB adapter cable. On the K3 Utility port page, no ports show up, and there is a notation at the bottom, “Serial port is closed”.
>
> Do you have any suggestions for how to proceed in making a connection?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave K9SW
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Dave Moorman

Re: "Serial port is closed"

This may be a wrong-cable problem. I was able to use the laptop to connect to the KX3 using the KXUSB cable with no difficulties. Ordered a KUSB from Elecraft and will give it a try.

Dave K9SW

> On Apr 21, 2015, at 4:39 AM, Mike Reublin NF4L <[hidden email]> wrote:
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> Dave -
>
> What version of WIndows are you running? What does device manager say? Is the adapter Prolific or FTDI? Do you have the correct driver installed?
>
> 73, Mike NF4L
>> On Apr 21, 2015, at 3:09 AM, K9SW <[hidden email]> wrote:
>>
>> Hello, Elecraft -
>>
>> Working on getting the K3 hooked up to a Dell Latitude laptop but can’t seem to make a connection using the K3 Utility. Using the serial to USB adapter cable. On the K3 Utility port page, no ports show up, and there is a notation at the bottom, “Serial port is closed”.
>>
>> Do you have any suggestions for how to proceed in making a connection?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Dave K9SW
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