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

[Phil Hystad]

I went to grab the latest Prolific driver (2009/12/2) and loaded that I was able to get a connection.  The Prolific COM5 port did not show up on the HRD until I set the com port driver properties speed to 34K.  That part of this I do not understand but I will live with it.  However, in spite of that properties setting of the speed, the HRD program would not successfully connect (and, read frequency) until I set the port speed to 4800 on the HRD connection dialog.

I need to read more on my K3 to see if it has auto-detect speed or if it is set to 4800.

73, phil, K7PEH


On Mar 9, 2010, at 8:19 PM, Phil Hystad wrote:

> 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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