[Elecraft] K2 Control Cable Question

[Don Wilhelm]

  Jim,

I would rather suggest you look at LP-Bridge by Larry Phipps.  It allows 
multiple software applications to use the same com port.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 4/27/2011 1:01 PM, Jim Campbell wrote:
> I have tapped into the K2's IF and am sending the resulting signal to a
> Softrock. The output of the Softrock is fed to a CW Skimmer. The K2's
> control cable is used by CW Skimmer to display the K2's current
> frequency. The connection is bi-directional as the CW Skimmer can
> command a change in the K2's frequency.
>
> I am using MixW3 as my logging program. I would like to feed the
> frequency info coming from the K2 to MixW as well. Is it possible to
> accomplish this by tapping into the K2's cable and extracting the RXD
> and GND signals to be sent to a different COM port that is used by MixW?
> The OS (Win 7 Pro) won't allow both CW Skimmer  and MixW to use the same
> COM port.
>
> Thanks and 72,
>
> Jim - W4BQP
>