[Elecraft] K3S - Win4K3Suite - SDRPlay

[Mark Musick]

Gwen,
I have the SDRPlay, Win4K3Suite and Windows 10.
The issue you had with the PX3 will not occur with the P3. Yes, you have IQ output on the PX3, but the P3 is the IF output.
For the P3 just move the switch on the back of the P3 to enable the P3 IF output, connect it to the SDRPlay, connect the SDRPlay via the USB cable to your PC and Win4K3Suite automatically recognizes the SDRPlay and the spectrum display works right away. No hassles. Yes, you can connect the SDRPlay directly to the IF out on the K3, but why would you do that and loose the use of the P3?
As to moving to Windows 10, I don't understand all the hullabaloo. You have to move to it sometime. So, why not do it sooner rather than later. Especially, when it is free. It is my understanding, if I'm wrong someone please correct me, but you will now have to pay to upgrade.
For me the upgrade from Windows 7 to Windows 10 has been the least painful of all the OS moves. Yes, you have to get use to things being in different places and accessing things differently, but you've got to do that whenever you move to a new OS. Thus my statement do it now rater than later. There are also new features in Windows 10 that are not in Windows 7 that I think makes it worth it.

73,
Mark, WB9CIF 

-----Original Message-----
From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net <elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net> On Behalf Of Gwen Patton
Sent: Sunday, June 9, 2019 13:40
To: Elecraft <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3S - Win4K3Suite - SDRPlay

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> 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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