[Elecraft] K3 KComm PSK D / FSK D Question

[Julian, G4ILO]

Ian Greenshields wrote:
> 
> I think even after it hopefully becomes possible to separate the K3's
> decoded text and radio responses on the serial port, some form of
> waterfall
> aid to tuning and band monitoring will still be extremely useful within a
> logging / control programme, then requiring an input to the soundcard
> anyway.
> 
This might be useful in the Linux version, which does not have a built-in
PSK via sound card function. But as I gave up using Linux a while back that
will not be a priority.



> At the moment, I use the MMVARI data engine for RTTY & PSK31 RX, and KComm
> for TX. But, they fight for the serial port, they don't fit on the screen,
> you can't easily transfer data from an RX to a TX window etc. etc. It
> seems
> to me that KComm does almost all of this already if the above were
> possible
> (OK, the data engine needs to support RTTY too, but that's a next step;
> the
> K3 display will have to do in the interim as it's much better at tuning &
> decoding RTTY).
> 
> It is possible? Could it be inplemented? Any other thoughts or solutions?
> 

One of the reasons I am not planning to put much more effort into developing
sound card support within KComm is that the next version, 1.6, uses Fldigi
as a data modes engine. You can control Fldigi from KComm and the text
decoded by Fldigi will appear in the KComm RX window for logging. You can
have KComm stay on top of Fldigi and position them so the Fldigi waterfall
appears below the bottom of the KComm window.

Unfortunately there is still work to be done before this next version can be
released, and time is something I don't have much of at the moment, so I
can't say when that will be.

You should be able to resolve the problem of two programs fighting over the
serial port by using the free Virtual Serial Port Emulator software. I'm
pretty sure this is described on the KComm help pages somewhere if you need
links to it, as it is also needed if you want to run CW Skimmer.

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