k3 Utility 1.4.1.8 download problem

[ik1bxn]

Hi you all, I'm trying to download latest version for k3 Utility (1.4.1.8) in order to upgrage my k3 fw but browser says the page does not exist. Are there any problem at Elecraft web server ? thanks in advance,73 de Giorgio

[Dick Dievendorff]

I've asked our web guru to fix this.

In the mean time, you can get the current K3 Utility from:

ftp://ftp.elecraft.com/tmp/K3/K3UTIL/K3_Utility_Setup_1_4_1_8.exe


73  de Dick, K6KR


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Hi you all, I'm trying to download latest version for k3 Utility (1.4.1.8)
in order to upgrage my k3 fw but browser says the page does not exist. Are
there any problem at Elecraft web server ? thanks in advance,73 de Giorgio
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[ik1bxn]

Many thanks Dick for fast response. 73 and good w/e , Giorgio

[Julius Fazekas n2wn]

Hi Dick,

Thanks for the link...

I also couldn't find a zipped version of the latest firmware. It was nice to have this as my "shack" isn't web friendly.

Cheers,
Julius
n2wn

[Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ]

We just fixed the web page link. Please try again.

73, Eric

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On 1/22/2011 6:05 AM, ik1bxn wrote:
> Hi you all, I'm trying to download latest version for k3 Utility (1.4.1.8) in
> order to upgrage my k3 fw but browser says the page does not exist. Are
> there any problem at Elecraft web server ? thanks in advance,73 de Giorgio
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[ik1bxn]

Yes, it works now, thanks for fixing and feedback !
73 de Giorgio

[Barry]

What has changed in the new version?
Is there a link to a very history for K3Util?
Thanks,
Barry W2UP

[John_N1JM]

Barry:

I triggered the latest version. Read below. You don't have to go to the ftp site now.


This turned out to be a K3 Utility bug, which showed up in Tx Gain calibration if your K3 has the K3 CONFIG menu: “AUTO INF” set to something other than NOR.  Users of a SteppIR controller might normally have this set.
 
Earlier versions of the K3 Utility turned off Auto-Info and restored it after Tx Gain calibration was complete. A few months ago I made changes to remove Auto Info setters in an effort to be compatible with LP-Bridge’s requirements.  Larry, N8LP, indicated that changing Auto Info interfered with rig sharing and that was a reason (perhaps not the only reason) that the K3 Utility wasn’t able to run under LP-Bridge.
 
When Auto Info is on, a fair number of unsolicited responses are generated when the band is changed.  The calibration code issues a band change setter, then reads the existing frequency on the new band (so that the “last used” frequency on each band can be restored), then changes to the calibration frequency.  The frequency setter is issued during the flurry of unsolicited responses and apparently was lost (on some radios but not others), and the retry code reissued a confirming frequency query rather than reissuing the frequency setter.  I’ve changed the K3 Utility Tx Gain calibration routine to re-issue the frequency setter in these circumstances.
 
I’ve asked our web site owner  to move the newly fixed version to the Elecraft K3 software web page.  That sometimes takes a little while depending on workload.
 
If you are suffering from this issue and don’t mind being a bit of a pioneer, the new K3 Utility version is available from this FTP site:
 
ftp://ftp.elecraft.com/tmp/K3/K3UTIL/K3_Utility_Setup_1_4_1_8.exe
 
Thanks to John, N1JM, for testing the new version and for supplying before and after fix traces.
Thanks to Jack, W6FB, for an earlier note that suggested that my retry code should reissue the setter rather than the getter.  You were right, Jack!
Thanks to Adrian, VK4TUX, for noting that I had an extra period in the hyperlink to the FTP location in an earlier message.
 
Neither of my K3s did this in my repeated tests of Tx Gain calibration with Auto Info on.  Band change time is variable.
 
73 de Dick, K6KR
 
> From: [e-mail] [mailto:[e-mail]] On
> Behalf Of John Merrill
> Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2011 10:52 AM
> To: Elecraft_K3
> Subject: [Elecraft_K3] Power gain calibration
>
>
> Must be doing something wrong. Using the utility I get this error for both
> 5w and 50w cal:
>
> Elecraft K3 Utility Version 1.3.10.15
> OS Version 6.1 Build 7600 Windows 7/Windows Server 2008 R2
> Starting 50 watt calibration
> Calibrating at 1.900 MHz
> Elapsed time: 17 seconds
> K3 did not respond to VFO A query (FA)
> 50 watt calibration failed
>
> FA responds fine on the command tester tab.
>
> 73,
> John N1JM