[Elecraft] Computer interface programming

[Tom Zeltwanger]

Mike,

Thanks for these suggestions. This is what I was looking for. I just want a 
jump start. I am not going to concentrate on a fancy GUI - several nice GUI 
based applications already exist. I just want some basic functionality that can 
run on a small embedded processor (using LINUX, most likely). Main application 
is contesting (primarily CW but starting to do more SSB).


73,

Tom KG3V



Quoting Mike Markowski <mm at UDel.Edu>:

> Tom,
> 
> Tom Zeltwanger wrote:
> > Can anybody recommend a source of any open source software or libraries 
> > (preferably "C" language) for talking to my K2? I just build the KIO2 and
> am 
> > looking at doing some custom interface programming.
> 
> It's easy enough that you might not even need any other libraries.  The real
> work is to get the serial link going.  After that, all k2 commands and
> responses
> are plain ascii with one exception.  The "DS" command that returns the state
> of
> the display uses binary data.
> 
> You might want to check out http://hamlib.org and its open source C code. 
> Since
> it's designed to talk to many rig types, though, there's probably more
> abstraction than you're interested in, but it might be useful.  Also, the K2
> is
> only partially supported by hamlib.
> 
> I recently wrote some Java code (http://udel.edu/~mm/ham/elecraft/) for the
> K2
> and W1 using the rxtx.org serial link support library and using rxtx and
> writing
> the graphical portions were the hardest parts.  K2 control is mostly nice
> and
> easy.  Since it wasn't designed to be 100% software controlled, the only
> thing I
> find cumbersome is dealing with rig functions that don't have dedicated
> commands.  For instance, take a look at what you need to do to turn on or
> off
> the power amp.  :-)  All in all, though, I think you'll find it easy enough.
> 
> 73,
> Mike ab3ap
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