[Elecraft] How 'bout a USB interface?

[Margaret Leber]

Jessie Oberreuter wrote:

>      If you are looking to write software, the approach should be to
> define something like an "OpenRadio" interface standard (didn't I see a
> call for this in QST or QEX a few years back?).  This frees application
> writers from the intricacies of the various hardware interfaces, and
> provides driver writers with the motivation to implement drivers for
> available real world radio and physical interfaces.

There is such a project. See: http://hamlib.sourceforge.net/
It hasn't moved much lately, and nobody I know has ever written a client 
that uses it. If I see sufficient reason someday I might include a 
Hamlib JNI bridge module in JHamTune, but there's not enough 
functionality in Hamlib to justify doing that as yet.

  73 de Maggie K3XS

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