[Elecraft] [K3] K3 USB, Serial Drivers, and HRD Connection

[Phil Hystad]

Dave,

Thanks for your comments and suggestions but I should not need to change the com port number.  I have been scanning the Internet and finding that there is no lack of problems with the prolific drivers and I am thinking I might just go buy some other interface.

I am willing to go out and buy another serial/USB interface cable if someone suggests one that will work both with the K3 Utility as well as HRD (I do not need this to run simultaneously though).

73, phil, K7PEH


On Mar 9, 2010, at 7:54 PM, David Herring, K6DCH wrote:

> There may be a way to tell you prolific drivers to be something else other than com5...say maybe com3?
> 
> I have a similar setup but with different serial interface and hence different drivers. I had to set the driver to be, in my case, com2 in order for HRD to use it.
> 
> 73,
> Dave. K6DCH
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On Mar 9, 2010, at 5:44 PM, Phil Hystad <k7peh at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
>> I rarely dip into my Windows laptop but I wanted to check out something with HRD (Ham Radio Deluxe) so I thought I would hook it up to my K3 (I had it configured to work with my Icom 756 Pro III already).  So, I chose to do a new connection setup for the K3 after I had setup the serial interface (using the serial/USB cable from Elecraft).  I had already run the K3 USB so I figured this should work with HRD.
>> 
>> But, problems.  I am wondering if HRD can use the driver setup for this serial interface?  I first ran HRD and when I did the new connection I had COM3  available but nothing else.  I tried with COM3, no good.  So, I shutdown HRD and started up K3 USB utility.  It listed COM5 (not COM3).  I did the connection and port test and all seems to work.  I shutdown the K3 USB utility.  Started up HRD and no COM5 is available.
>> 
>> So, it seems like HRD does not see the ports created by the driver installed (Prolific drivers) for the Elecraft Serial/USB interface.
>> 
>> Before I start debugging this problem maybe there is an obvious answer from those who have already done this?  Is there something that I am missing?  Does anyone successfully use HRD with the Prolific drivers and the Elecraft supplied serial/USB cable?
>> 
>> 73, phil, K7PEH
>> 
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