[Elecraft] K3/K3s Ethernet Interface

[Pierfrancesco Caci]

On 20 July 2015 07:53:04 CEST, "Dr. William J. Schmidt, II" <bill at wjschmidt.com> wrote:
>Yes you can use it one of two ways... in TCP mode, there is a small
>driver loaded on your PC that creates a pseudo RS232 port on the
>computer that all your existing software connects to.  Your software
>thinks it's talking to your radio via RS232... but really that is an
>emulation that gets ported over the Ethernet to the radio (where the
>Ethernet to RS232 server is) and deconstructed into RS232 (RXD and TXD)
>with DTR and RTS for keying.  Your computer can be right next to your
>radio or half way around the world and the radio will never know the
>difference.  Latency is not a problem.
>
>Second mode is WEB server where the radio is emulated in web pages in
>the onboard web server (eg web page looks like the radio).  You can
>change any parameter in the setup or knob on the radio that you could
>via RS232.
>
>No security is provided.  Nor is there with the FLEX, Ten-tec, or any
>other radio that has an Ethernet connection currently.  I just use a
>Netgear firewall and VPN through it securely.
>
>
>Dr. William J. Schmidt - K9HZ J68HZ 8P6HK ZF2HZ PJ4/K9HZ VP5/K9HZ
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>
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>Big Signal Ranch – K9ZC
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>
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>
William,
The fact that you mention a "driver" makes me think this will be limited to a certain OS. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
You didn't answer my question about firmware updates to the K3. Will it be possible to use k3util in the normal way, for doing upgrades, saving and restoring config, doing the calibration?
How will network latency and packet loss affect critical operations like firmware uploads?
Pf ik5pvx

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Pierfrancesco Caci