[Elecraft] Digital software compatibility

[Nate Bargmann]

* On 2011 19 Jun 19:55 -0500, Don Wilhelm wrote:
>   Ian,
> 
> If your interest is mainly for digital modes, you might want to look at 
> Fldigi along with Hamlib.

I will caution that as of this time the Hamlib version, 1,2,12, compiled
with Fldigi does not have good K3 support.  I rewrote the K3 backend
over the winter and solved various issues including correctly supporting
the K3's DATA mode.  Unfortunately, Dave, W1HKJ wishes to have Hamlib
compiled as part of the Fldigi application for convenience of those
installing his Windows builds of Fldigi, but changes we needed to make
with the GNU Build System in Hamlib has left him unable to do so since
the release of Hamlib 1.2.13 back in February which has the improved K3
support.

We continue to work with Dave to resolve this issue.  Note that this
only affects the Windows, Mac OS/X, and binary tarball for Linux
releases directly from http://www.w1hkj.com  For those tracking Linux
distributions such as Debian Testing/Unstable, or one of the later
releases of Ubuntu and derivatives, this is not an issue as Hamlib is
updated separately.  Other distributions such as Fedora and OpenSUSE
also track Hamlib releases (the latest is Hamlib 1.2.13.1 which now
queries the K3 for the firmware version and is the only K3 update since
1.2.13).

I am hoping to convice Dave to link to Hamlib dynamically in the future
so that interested parties can download our Win32 Hamlib releases and
keep Hamlib up-to-date separately.  Hamlib 1.2.14 is in development and
is planned to be released around August 1, 2011.

For the Hamlib Group, http://www.hamlib.org

73, de Nate N0NB >>

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