[Elecraft] K3: COM1 and COM3 question

[Greg]

I suspect he means going into device manager and changing the COM port
designation for the port the radio is connected to.  That's the only thing
that makes sense to me at least.

73
Greg



On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 2:59 PM, David Gilbert <xdavid at cis-broadband.com>wrote:

>
> That is simply not true.  The K3 has no idea what COM port on the
> computer it is talking to.  Please describe how you change the COM port
> designation on the K3.
>
> Dave   AB7E
>
>
> On 11/2/2011 1:30 PM, Jim Dunstan wrote:
>
>  Hi
>
> No problem, and not unusual.  The computer OS assigns the COM number to
> devices,
> in this case the Serial Ports, and assures they operate without conflict
> with any other device in/attached to the computer.
>
> Generally the serial port is often but not always set as COM1.  If you
> attach a device to the serial port and it works right
> away ... then they are both set to the same COM number.  If the COM numbers
> are not the same they will not communicate
> and you will have to change the number either at the computer or the
> device/program.
>
> Communications between computer and device using COM1 to COM1 is the same
> as COM3 to COM3.  Now if you swap
> computers/radios in your shack you will also have to change the COM# on the
> radios (best place to make the change).
>
> Jim, VE3CI
>
>
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