[Elecraft] K3 Convergence

[Augie Hansen]

Joe Subich, W4TV wrote:
> ...
> That is not an application software matter - it is something the 
> radio manufacturers will need to fix in their CAT implementations. 
> There is not a single radio that is capable- in either hardware 
> or software - of reliably servicing two different radio control 
> applications.  To do so, several changes are needed in the current 
> radio firmware and interface: 
>   
...

The crux of the matter is RS-232 specifies a point-to-point protocol. It 
was never intended to support "bus" configurations. If you want, as 
suggested by several corespondents, support for a bus configuration with 
master and slave entities that play well together, a more robust 
hardware/software solution is called for.

Gus Hansen
KB0YH