[Elecraft] K3S - Win4K3Suite - SDRPlay

[Paul Gacek]

Gwen

You might not like it but from Microsoft’s web site W7 goes end of life Jan 2020 (i.e. 6 months from now) after which no security patches will be made available.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsforbusiness/end-of-windows-7-support

A patched OS is really a good thing to have and you really might want to bite the bullet……

All this probably explains why you get shrugs and requests to upgrade.

Paul
W6PNG/M0SNA
www.nomadic.com

> On Jun 9, 2019, at 2:39 PM, Gwen Patton <ardrhi at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> That's essentially what I did, but with KX3/PX3. I have a lovely 3.5mm to
> 2.5mm cable running from the PX3 IQ output to a spare mike in jack on my
> PC. I had to do some weird jiggery-pokery with default sound devices to get
> it to work because Win4K3Suite uses some of the same (or related) code
> that's also in WSJT-X and other code derived from it, that doesn't play
> nicely with Windows 7 64-bit. None of those programs will "see" my correct
> microphone list, though other unrelated programs DO. Those programs only
> see a pair of old entries that haven't been on my machine in years. I have
> to trick them to see the devices I want, through setting default devices
> and using VB-Audio's Voicemeeter virtual mixer program.
> 
> But when I DO get every tab A in the right slot B, I can set Win4K3Suite to
> look to that spare mike jack for its spectrum scope source. Works great!
> 
> I've asked (begged) the authors of the various programs to PLEASE do
> something about their operation with Windows 7, but I only get shrugs and
> sometimes rude demands that I simply "upgrade to Windows 10, that works".
> Seeing the *correct* list of enumerated input device drivers should NOT be
> something I have to upgrade my operating system to get, when I only get the
> problem with a very small number of specialized programs.  *sigh...*
> 
> 73,
> Gwen, NG3P
> 
> On Sun, Jun 9, 2019 at 9:25 AM Don Wilhelm <donwilh at embarqmail.com <mailto:donwilh at embarqmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>> Rich,
>> 
>> There is no need to bypass the P3, just connect the SDRPlay to the P3 IF
>> output.
>> 
>> The P3 IF output is a replication of the K3S IF output.
>> 
>> 73,
>> Don W3FPR
>> 
>> On 6/9/2019 7:04 AM, Richard Thorne wrote:
>>> I'd like to try Win4K3Suite with an SDRplay receiver.  I've been looking
>>> for a block diagram showing how the SDRPlay is connected to the K3S or
>> P3.
>>> 
>>> I understand it's a just a matter of connecting the output of the P3
>>> I.F. to the SDRPlay.
>>> 
>>> Can the P3 be bypassed and use the I.F. output directly from the K3S?
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