[Elecraft] K3 Convergence

[Bill W5WVO]

Augie Hansen wrote:

> 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.

Yup. And let us not forget that somebody has already done this on an amateur 
transceiver. The Ten-Tec OMNI-VII comes equipped with a fully functional 
implementation of TCP/IP over a built-in Ethernet port. This is where the 
transceiver industry should be going. I would hope to see a TCP/IP Ethernet 
port on the K3 at some point in the foreseeable future. The capability to 
support the port in firmware is certainly there.

Bill W5WVO