[Elecraft] K3 & LOGGING SOFTWARE

[Julian, G4ILO]

A fellow list member alerted me to the usefulness of the Eterlogic Virtual
Serial Port Emulator, which is freeware. He was using it to run CW Skimmer
and my logging program KComm simultaneously connected to his K3. I was
motivated by his endeavour to add support for CW Skimmer in KComm so the two
programs can now talk to each other. You can click on a station or a word in
the decoded text in Skimmer and it is transferred to the KComm log field and
Skimmer QSYs the radio to center that station in the filter passband. KComm
also color codes the spots in Skimmer to show if they are a new country, or
a dupe, etc.

The next version of KComm that I will release, probably not for a few weeks
because of holidays, will also have support for the Fldigi digimode program.
You will be able to run KComm and Fldigi both connected to the K2 or K3
using the VSPE. Clicking the QSY button in Fldigi will move the selected
datamode signal to the center of the filter passband, and the frequency
change is picked up by KComm. You enter the log information in Fldigi, and
when you click Save the entry is transferred to the KComm log, from where
you can export ADIF or Cabrillo files and get statistics.

I have been running the new Fldigi for Windows for a few days now and it
really is a most impressive program. It supports a fuller range of modes
than MixW, the main exception being SSTV, but it does not have much in the
way of logging capabilities. The integration with KComm remedies that, and
in my opinion the combination is a very desirable alternative to MixW.
Because KComm uses the identical log file format as MixW, there is no reason
for MixW users not to try it.

However, as I said, you will have to wait for the release of version 1.4 of
KComm for the Fldigi log communication. Under Linux KComm can already log
contacts saved in Fldigi, because it uses a different interface that is
already supported. But under Linux there is no way for two programs to share
a serial port (unless someone knows different) so you have to let Fldigi
control the radio and lose some of the KComm functionality.

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