[Elecraft] Bluetooth and Elecraft Rig Serial Comms

[Don Wilhelm]

Phil,

Why do you not try it and report the results?  If the bluetooth 
connection is good and the bluetooth to RS-232 adapter is of good 
quality, it should work just fine.
I have not tried it, but in theory it should work.  The only caution 
that I can state is that the quality of some consumer devices is wanting 
for something more robust.  Find one that is sufficiently robust and it 
should work.

Unfortunately, many PC type devices do not conform to true RS-232 levels 
and speeds, and will work with some devices over short distances, but 
fail on other devices that expect the minimum RS-232 switching 
voltages.  Others do not work at slow speeds - note the reports of USB 
to RS-232 adapter failures on this reflector - some work, and others do 
not, particularly with the slower data rate used by the K2.  Adapters 
designed for industrial applications will likely work, but some of those 
offered for the consumer market may present problems.  My Edgeport-4 
will handle anything I have connected to it so far, but a garden variety 
Prolific adapter is very picky and fails at slow data rates.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 4/12/2013 6:09 PM, Phil Hystad wrote:
> Has anyone used a Bluetooth to RS232 Serial adapter, such as the dongle style that could plug into a 9-pin connector (but, it does not have to be dongle style).
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> This would be instead of using a Serial to USB adapter.  I think, though I am not positive, that such devices come with driver to define additional serial COM ports.  I was wondering if such a configuration would work with the Elecraft utility programs.
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