[Elecraft] com0com N1MM and CWSkimmer

[Eric Van der Velde]

Iain,
I tried the GPS HUB example (http://com0com.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/com0com/hub4com/ReadMe.txt) from hub4com (2 com0com pairs and hub4com).
As soon as I started the hub4com the TRX started sending (PTT + KEY). No QRG info and the keydown situation didn't stop until I killed the hub4com process.
Running CWSkimmer degrades the N1MM performance of my PC. Running CWSkimmer on a separate PC could solve this issue.
Thanks,
Eric PE3V
> Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 10:54:10 -0700
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] com0com N1MM and CWSkimmer
> From: ar at dseven.org
> To: ericvandervelde at hotmail.com
> CC: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
> 
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 8:38 AM, PE3V <ericvandervelde at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > I am trying to setup a serial connection between an Elecraft K3, CWSkimmer
> > and
> > N1MM using com0com/hub4com.
> >
> > I don't get it working. Anyone on this forum who got this working properly?
> >
> > Thanks Eric PE3V (ex PA3FKN)
> >
> > PS I tried LP Bridge and that's working fine, but com0com looks a little bit
> > more ligthweigth .... (and if I can get it working I also have the
> > possibility
> > to run the serial ports over ethernet)
> 
> I'm not sure it's really any "lighter" than LP-Bridge... it's just
> different. You'd have to create two com0com pairs (one for N1MM Logger
> and one for CW Skimmer), then configure hub4com to connect the other
> ends of those two pairs, and the "real" K3 COM port together. I played
> with hub4com a bit some time ago, but don't recall if I ever tried
> this combination. How far did you get with it?
> 
> BTW, the big difference between this and LP-Bridge is that there's a
> possibility for multiple applications to issue commands to the K3 at
> the same time, with unexpected results. LP-Bridge has lots of "special
> intelligence" to handle this, where hub4com has no idea about the
> meaning of messages it's passing back and forth....
> 
> 73,
> 
>     ~iain / N6ML