[Elecraft] Best program for CAT and log on K3?

[Nate Bargmann]

* On 2010 31 Oct 11:18 -0500, paolo gramigna wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have been using MixW with my K3 for a long while, and I wonder if some of
> the new breed programs are worth the try.
> 
> My K3 is connected to MixW via a RigExpert plus interface. I work mainly CW,
> and I like to point-and-click on the waterfall, look at the decoder if I
> miss something, and log my QSO straight away. DX spotting on the internet is
> also a must for me.
> 
> I'm not familiar at all with HRD, Fldigi, N4PY and I'll like to hear any
> advice from anybody that can help me.

Fldigi will probably fill the bill except for the DX spotting which it
doesn't support but does support callsign lookup and providing
information to the PSK Reporter Web site.  Fldigi also has two different
ways of supporting the K3, one through its internal RigCAT protocol and
the other by way of Hamlib which is a separate project and is staticly
linked into the Fldigi download on Windows.

I have just recently begun to improve the K3 support in Hamlib and these
improvements will be in the next release, 1.2.13 (no release date is
known at this point, likely around the first of next year).  With these
improvements,  Hamlib's PKTUSB and PKTLSB modes are used by Fldigi for
displaying the proper difference between USB and LSB AFSK modes (in Fact
DATA A is use by each of these Hamlib modes).

For those running Linux and who would like to beta test the new code,
please contact me and I'll provide further details and where to get a
daily source code snapshot to compile and test against.  I would also
like to hear from K2 owners who are using Hamlib as some of the new code
will affect it as well.

73, de Nate >>

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