[Elecraft] LP-PAN 2 and P3

[Don Wilhelm]

LPB2 is a version of LP-Bridge that is intended for use with 
transceivers other than the K3 (K3S and KX3).
If you are running a K3, LP-Bridge (not LPB2) will provide better 
performance because it buffers some of the K3 information and thus 
reduces the need for frequent access to the K3 for information.  As a 
"for instance", LPB knows that the K3 is in USB mode, so when an 
application connected to one if its virtual ports polls for the mode of 
the K3, LPB can send that to the application without polling the K3 - in 
other words, it reduces the traffic between the computer and the K3.

Since LPB2 is not K3 dedicated, I would expect that there would be more 
direct accesses to the K3 than with LPB.

In other words, LPB2 is *not* an updated revision of LPB.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 10/15/2015 8:52 AM, Ken wrote:
> David,
>
> I'm using LPB2 (LP Bridge) to handle the serial port  access. FWIW, I 
> use DX Lab Commander for multi rig use.   That works especially well 
> for allowing either rig (K3 or Flex 6300) access control to the 
> KAT-500 tuner as well as logging software, fldigi, etc.
>