[Elecraft] RTTY operation with Terminal in Utility

[Dick Dievendorff]

The K3 Utility currenly uses the text-to-terminal capability of the K3 for
its terminal program.  Currently the P3 doesn't forward this information to
the PC host. I've started an effort to exploit a new K3 MCU command, TB,
designed for programs like this. It's going to be a few weeks more because
of a vacation, but an update that provides terminal support concurrently
with P3 operation is planned. 

It will be a K3 Utility update rather than a P3 update.

Dick, K6KR


-----Original Message-----
From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of jpk5lad at cox.net
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2010 11:11 PM
To: Elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [Elecraft] RTTY operation with Terminal in Utility

I'd seen comments about the inability of uploading the K3 
firmware through the P3's RS-232 connection and I knew that the 
instructions, until the P3 firmware is updated, was to turn off the 
P3 while loading the K3.

I had not seen any comments about a problem using the K3 Utility 
program to run the Terminal program on RTTY but I discovered 
that in order to use the RTTY terminal section, and probably the 
CW and PSK31 decode feature too, was to turn off the P3.  Once 
it's off, the Terminal program comes back to life.

I'm looking forward to a P3 firmware update when it becomes 
more transparent to the information flowing to and from the K3 
through the P3.

Also I'll put in another plug for updating the K3 Utility program so 
it can share a virtual serial port through LP-Bridge (for the 
Terminal) while the K3 can continue to talk to the computer for the 
Logger32 logging program.

Thanks for everything and 73,
Jim - K5LAD



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