[Elecraft] K3 port sharing and FT-8

[Gary Smith]

With the K3 & the K3s, I found getting 
WSJT-X to play nice was an oddity; 5% of 
the time it would work and 95% of the time 
it did not (The % is relative to my 
experience, not exact %). All Ham programs 
used LP-Bridge with no issue except 
WSJT-X. 

I finally was directed to Win4K3suite as 
Tom just mentioned. It resolved all the 
issues I had and I was totally happy with 
his software. I was not happy with several 
things regarding WSJT-X and I could see 
people asking for the same things on the 
email forum but these changes didn't come.

A VE friend suggested I try JTDX and 
though it does not do some things I like, 
like MSK for 6M, I found it to do 
everything I liked and it has much the 
same interface as WSJT-X. It is also a 
free program and now that I am using it, I 
no longer use WSJT-X, for me, there's no 
need to. 

http://jtdx.tech/en/videos-guides

Look to the bottom of the downloads column 
on the right & the latest version for 
windows is JTDX v2.0.1-rc137_6

My 2 pence & 73,

Gary
KA1J

> Maybe the collective wisdom of this group has an answer not to be
> found elsewhere.
> 
> Currently, I use DXBase for logging and an SDR-IQ running SpectraVue
> software for a panadapter.  These are "connected" to the K3S using
> LPBridge for port sharing.  This works well, and provides a clean
> spectrum display with point-and-click and mouse wheel tuning, if
> desired. I can also connect N1MM and AXTTY (a DXBase specific version
> of MMTTY) via port sharing if necessary. I don't use skimmer, spots or
> any of that other stuff.
> 
> Enter FT8, which for philosophical reasons I'm not fond of, but
> pragmatism is forcing it on me.  As best as I can determine, WSJT-X
> (FT8) requires total hogging of the K3S com port.  So to switch over
> I have to close the other programs and start WSJT-X. This takes a
> little time while DXBase updates its database.  Going the other way
> takes even more time while LPBridge creates the virtual ports before
> the other programs start.  Although I haven't tried it I believe
> there is a bridge from WSJT-X to DXBase, which then gets frequency
> from WSJT-X.
> 
> So, the question is, is there a solution to this other than buying a
> different radio?
> 
> Wes  N7WS
> 
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