Re: [Elecraft] New Firmware MCU 3.79
I keep the beta zip files in the directory, when there is a new version to test I delete the 8 extracted files from the last zip and extract the contents from the latest zip. That way there is little chance of confusion between versions and it's easy to store the various releases without creating a lot of directories. 73 Dave, G4AON Thanks Dick, I stand corrected. Even though the older versions are not discarded, is it possible to load a prior version of the firmware from that one folder? If so, how is that specified? My experience with this is limited. I am one of the firmware field testers and download my firmware from an entirely different source. 73, Don W3FPR __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] New Firmware MCU 3.79
The K3 Utility finds the highest version of each firmware file in the folder. If the mist recent rev is problematic, remove it or rename it perhaps by changing it's extension. I don't provide any help in matching MCU to DSP revisions tho. Several FTers and customers have never used the K3 Utility's normal FTP mechanism. It is supposed to be really easy! Dick Sent from my iPhone On Mar 20, 2010, at 8:24 PM, Don Wilhelm w3...@embarqmail.com wrote: Thanks Dick, I stand corrected. Even though the older versions are not discarded, is it possible to load a prior version of the firmware from that one folder? If so, how is that specified? My experience with this is limited. I am one of the firmware field testers and download my firmware from an entirely different source. 73, Don W3FPR Dick Dievendorff wrote: The K3 Utility does not discard old revisions of firmware. It leaves them in place. But it does use only rhe latest revision found in the firmware folder. You shouldn't really need a new folder every time unless you prefer to. Nothing is overwritten except the firmware release notes and the little file that describes the K3 Utulity version itself. Thar file is used to inform you of née J3 Utility versions. Dick, K6KR __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] New Firmware MCU 3.79
Steve, Go to ftp://ftp.elecraft.com/K3/firmware 73, Ted, W2ZK On 3/20/2010 4:29 PM, W0SZ wrote: I am unable to find the file for version MCU 3.79. Can anyone help me find the new firmware? 73, Steve __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] New Firmware MCU 3.79
Steve, If you tried looking on the Elecraft website and did not see it, you may have to refresh your browser. Click the Firmware and SW link on the left, then select the K3 Firmware page - Release 3.79 should be at the top of the box on that page. If you have K3Utility pointed to detect new firmware on the Elecraft FTP site, it should detect that version and download it if you elect to do that. See the K3Utility Help page if you have trouble setting it up to automatically notify you of new firmware available. 73, Don W3FPR W0SZ wrote: I am unable to find the file for version MCU 3.79. Can anyone help me find the new firmware? 73, Steve __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.791 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2759 - Release Date: 03/20/10 03:33:00 __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] New Firmware MCU 3.79
The firmware is NOT show as a 3r79.zip file and a brower refresh doesn't change the situation. This is different from all of the previous releases. If you want to download and save version 3.79 you need to create a new folder and transfer all of the required files into that folder. This will create an archive for previous versions. Going directly to the Elecraft website via the K3 Utility does not create an archive folder. 73 Elliott WA6TLA - Original Message - From: Don Wilhelm w3...@embarqmail.com To: W0SZ zumbr...@comcast.net Cc: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2010 3:25 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] New Firmware MCU 3.79 Steve, If you tried looking on the Elecraft website and did not see it, you may have to refresh your browser. Click the Firmware and SW link on the left, then select the K3 Firmware page - Release 3.79 should be at the top of the box on that page. If you have K3Utility pointed to detect new firmware on the Elecraft FTP site, it should detect that version and download it if you elect to do that. See the K3Utility Help page if you have trouble setting it up to automatically notify you of new firmware available. 73, Don W3FPR W0SZ wrote: I am unable to find the file for version MCU 3.79. Can anyone help me find the new firmware? 73, Steve __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.791 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2759 - Release Date: 03/20/10 03:33:00 __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] New Firmware MCU 3.79
Elliot, It sounds like you are attempting to use the procedure for downloading beta releases. The .zip file was most likely removed when it was no longer considered a beta version. The release versions have always been downloaded by K3 Utility into the folder (you can choose that folder - make a new one and point K3 Utility to it). The prior release version if present in that target folder will be discarded. I just tried it - Make a new folder for the MCU3r79 firmware somewhere on your computer, then open K3 Utility and click the Browse button and navigate to your new folder - then click OK. Back on the K3 Utility window, check the Copy New Firmware from Elecraft into Local Folder and then click the Check New Versions Now - the firmware will be downloaded. If you want to archive each release, you will have to create a different folder for that release - K3 Utility does not archive releases. The beta versions are released as a .zip file that you must download, unzip into a folder and then point K3 Utility to that folder. 73, Don W3FPR Elliott Lawrence wrote: The firmware is NOT show as a 3r79.zip file and a brower refresh doesn't change the situation. This is different from all of the previous releases. If you want to download and save version 3.79 you need to create a new folder and transfer all of the required files into that folder. This will create an archive for previous versions. Going directly to the Elecraft website via the K3 Utility does not create an archive folder. 73 Elliott WA6TLA __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] New Firmware MCU 3.79
The latest version of the utility will create the directory. Just type it in. 73, Mike NF4L W0SZ wrote: Thanks, Elliott. That was what I thought. I had to create a new folder myself and put in it the required files. You are correct. This is different from all previous releases. Thanks and 73, Steve __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] New Firmware MCU 3.79
Wayne posted a request for beta testers on March 6. I was one of the voluteers and didn't find any problems. Dunc, W5DC W0SZ wrote: Don, I guess there was no Beta of 3.79. Many of us have gotten use to downloading the Beta releases and so this threw us off. It wasn't intuitively obvious how to do a released version. 73, Steve . __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] New Firmware MCU 3.79
The K3 Utility does not discard old revisions of firmware. It leaves them in place. But it does use only rhe latest revision found in the firmware folder. You shouldn't really need a new folder every time unless you prefer to. Nothing is overwritten except the firmware release notes and the little file that describes the K3 Utulity version itself. Thar file is used to inform you of née J3 Utility versions. Dick, K6KR Sent from my iPhone On Mar 20, 2010, at 4:43 PM, Don Wilhelm w3...@embarqmail.com wrote: Elliot, It sounds like you are attempting to use the procedure for downloading beta releases. The .zip file was most likely removed when it was no longer considered a beta version. The release versions have always been downloaded by K3 Utility into the folder (you can choose that folder - make a new one and point K3 Utility to it). The prior release version if present in that target folder will be discarded. I just tried it - Make a new folder for the MCU3r79 firmware somewhere on your computer, then open K3 Utility and click the Browse button and navigate to your new folder - then click OK. Back on the K3 Utility window, check the Copy New Firmware from Elecraft into Local Folder and then click the Check New Versions Now - the firmware will be downloaded. If you want to archive each release, you will have to create a different folder for that release - K3 Utility does not archive releases. The beta versions are released as a .zip file that you must download, unzip into a folder and then point K3 Utility to that folder. 73, Don W3FPR Elliott Lawrence wrote: The firmware is NOT show as a 3r79.zip file and a brower refresh doesn't change the situation. This is different from all of the previous releases. If you want to download and save version 3.79 you need to create a new folder and transfer all of the required files into that folder. This will create an archive for previous versions. Going directly to the Elecraft website via the K3 Utility does not create an archive folder. 73 Elliott WA6TLA __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] New Firmware MCU 3.79
Thanks Dick, I stand corrected. Even though the older versions are not discarded, is it possible to load a prior version of the firmware from that one folder? If so, how is that specified? My experience with this is limited. I am one of the firmware field testers and download my firmware from an entirely different source. 73, Don W3FPR Dick Dievendorff wrote: The K3 Utility does not discard old revisions of firmware. It leaves them in place. But it does use only rhe latest revision found in the firmware folder. You shouldn't really need a new folder every time unless you prefer to. Nothing is overwritten except the firmware release notes and the little file that describes the K3 Utulity version itself. Thar file is used to inform you of née J3 Utility versions. Dick, K6KR __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
