[Elecraft] Signalink and K3

[Don Wilhelm]

Art,

Yes, multiple soundcards are possible, and each can be dedicated to 
different purposes (i.e. one for panadapter display, one for soundcard 
data modes, and another for Windows sounds).  You will have to 'monkey' 
with the default soundcard for Windows each time you add one, because 
Windows always automatically sets the latest added card as the default.  
You select the soundcard to be used in the individual application.

The 'problem' is "how do you get all applications to talk to the 
transceiver through one serial port" when each of those applications 
want to have a dedicated port to control the rig.
Larry Phipps  N8LP has created LP-Bridge which creates virtual ports 
that can be used to connect those other applications and send their 
command/responses through to the rig over the real serial port.
There are other virtual port applications that do the same thing, but 
LP-Bridge was initially created for the K3 and works quite well with it 
- LP-Bridge presents an interface to the various applications that look 
like a K3 and buffers some information so as to reduce the polling and 
responses from the K3.  There is an alternate LP-Bridge2 that works with 
other transceivers.
Additional information can be had on the LP-Pan Yahoo Group.  Larry is 
quite approachable and helpful with setup questions posted on that group 
reflector.

Ed may chime in with more detail.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 11/11/2014 5:59 PM, Art Greenberg wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Nov 2014, Edward R Cole wrote:
>
>> Now some other things I am involved in (I bought a LP-Pan)
>> So *bottom line* the K3 does not need a Signalink.
>
> Ed, I presume you're running some I/Q processing with the LP-PAN. Are 
> you doing that while running a computer based digital mode? Are you 
> using a separate audio interface for the RX & TX audio in those modes? 
> Is it possible to have to sound cards connected and running at the 
> same time?