[Elecraft] PC<>P3<K3 and Ultrabeam controllor RS232 connections.

[Vic Rosenthal 4X6GP/K2VCO]

Salvo,

I don't have an Ultrabeam, but I have an older Palstar AT-AUTO antenna 
tuner hooked up like this. I have simply paralleled the RS232 RXD input 
to the tuner with the TXD line from the P3 that goes to the computer. I 
did not connect the TXD line of the tuner.

The tuner is in a listen-only configuration. In order for this to work, 
my logging program must be running. It polls the K3 and the tuner sees 
the data from the K3.

I believe some are doing the same thing with SteppIR antennas.

73,
Vic, 4X6GP/K2VCO
Rehovot, Israel
http://www.qsl.net/k2vco/

On 6 Oct 2015 12:18, Salvatore Irato wrote:
> Hi all.
> On behalf of a good friend I would ask if there is anyone out there is
> using or having experience using a configuration like this:
> PC<>P3<>K3>UB cntrl.
> Starting from a PC, connecting a P3 and then a K3, all via RS232, then
> via the same RS232 having chained a Ultrabeam (UB) dynamic antenna
> controller.
> I mean a UB as a paralleled target, over TX data for the K3 VFO data,
> coming from the K3 both as a result of any manual or logger charnges
> of the K3 QRG.
>
> I don't have all this, as I lack the dynamic antenna, but I am pretty
> sure that somebody had already solved successfully all that. Thus
> having the Ultrabeam controller getting data from the K3. As to follow
> with motion, UB, K3 and logger changes to a new band or in band
> segment changes. Isn't?
>
> I ask all this in the more general terms, i.e. cables schema,
> preferred speeds, reference url's or and so on. Any information could
> be valuable from whoever had made this working.
>
>   TU in advance, BTW feel free to drop me a mail out of list, not to
> use too much space here.
>
>
>            73 de iw1ayd Salvo