[Elecraft] WSPR with K3

[Nate Bargmann]

* On 2011 05 Jan 13:38 -0600, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote:
> 
> The K3 support is (and has been) broken in HAMLIB on the Windows
> platform.  Fldigi, WSPR and other software that requires HAMLIB
> for rig support will not work reliably with the K3.

Sadly, this is true, and until I bought my K3, no one  who develops
Hamlib code actually had a K3.  I have made some changes with more to go
that will be in the next Hamlib release, 1.2.13.  This does not help
those K3 owners stuck with an older version.

Hamlib development relies on volunteers to either write the backend code
and test with their own hardware or other volunteers who can test
prototype code with their radios.  Fortunately, the gap is closing bit
by bit, thanks to help from many hams.  Hamlib is a voluntary project
and few of us are professional programmers.  That has certain
consequences for the project.

> It's up to the maintainer of the Windows port of HAMLIB to fix the
> issue.

Actually, there is no "Windows port" as it were as the DLL for Windows
is generated from the exact same sources used to compile the binaries
for the *nix versions.  So the changes made to the K3 and K2 backends
before the next release will be in the Win32 release as well.  The
situation is complicated by whether an application has Hamlib compiled
in it statically, or it is dynamically linked.

For those wishing to test the latest code, there is a daily SVN source 
code snapshot at:

http://n0nb.users.sourceforge.net

For those willing to do so, a Win32 DLL can be compiled from the
snapshot.

On behalf of the Hamlib Group,

73, de Nate N0NB >>

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