[Elecraft] LP-PAN 2 and P3

[Don Wilhelm]

David,

LP-Pan is just a piece of hardware, and has no connection with COM ports.
However, the software application that shows you the panadapter display 
on the computer will usually use a COM port to indicate the frequency on 
the display and may have some other rig control functions.
Note that a com port is not *required* for the panadapter display 
portion, only a soundcard is needed for that - however, that panadapter 
display becomes more useful if the frequency is collected from the rig 
via the COM port.

One application at a time is able to use a physical COM port, but there 
are software applications that provide virtual port replication - like 
LP-Bridge.
LP-bridge connects to the COM port used by the transceiver and other 
applications that also need to 'talk' to the transceiver connect to the 
virtual ports of LP-Bridge.

An alternative to LP-Bridge is Win4K3suite which does the same port 
"expansion" function in a slightly different manner.  Also Google for 
"virtual COM port" for other alternatives.

You will find more information on LP-Pan and LP-Bridge on the 
www.telepostinc.com website and on the LP-Pan Yahoo group.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 10/15/2015 6:10 AM, David Smith wrote:
> I have an additional question in addition to Jorge.  I recently installed my
> LPAN2 (I do not have a P3).
>
> My question is that can I run my LPAN2 at the same time I run N1MM+.   I
> tried and got a port conflict the with K3.  Also, I run SO2R with 2 K3s and
> never made it that far to check additional port conflicts as I didn't make
> it past the first port conflict.
>
>