[Elecraft] (Elecraft) XG3 RF generator software port selection

[Don Wilhelm]

Nels,

You mention "software that comes with the generator"  Would that be the 
XG3 Utility?  If you do not have XG3 Utility, download it from the 
Elecraft website.

Separately, you must have a driver for your USB to serial adapter. That 
adapter is the same one that is shipped with the KX3, and you should go 
to the FTDI website to download the latest driver.  There is a link on 
the Elecraft website for that.

It is helpful to remember that the adapter for the XG3 and the KX3 are 
the same.  Get the driver, and then open XG3 Utility.  I am thinking 
(but don't know for sure) that you may have no com ports configured on 
your laptop, so there are no COM ports available to show in XG3 
Utility.  add the drivers for the USB adapters first. BTW, they will 
first recognize the driver for the FTDI chip, and then Windoze will want 
to load a driver for a Serial Port - you must do both.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 9/21/2012 4:37 PM, Nels Nelsen wrote:
> Has any one gotten the XG3 RF generator to talk to a laptop just thru a USB
> port? I am useing a Windows XP laptop which does not have the old style
> com-port 1 with a db-9 connector, it just has the modern USB ports. I am
> wondering If I don't have a problem with the USB driver.
> When I start up the software that comes with the generator, there is no
> selection of a port available in the  "select this port"  portion of the
> windows software.
>