[Elecraft] K3 port sharing and FT-8

[Wes]

Tom,

I've downloaded and tried your program several times (perhaps that why your site 
won't let me do it again).  Nothing personal, but I just don't like running the 
radio from the computer that much.  I know that flies in the face of my desire 
to tune (sometimes) the frequency with the mouse on the panadapter.  Otherwise, 
I like the knobs.  That said, your mention of Omni-rig got me thinking and I 
installed it and at first blush it appears that I can now connect everything to 
everything else using LP-Bridge.

I'll call this the beta test stage, but did want to put this out there for the 
folks who said it would work.

Wes


On 6/11/2019 4:00 PM, Tom wrote:
> Hi
> 7 years ago, I tried to write some small software projects that used LPBridge to share ports. I quickly found out that it does not pass all commands through the radio. In addition, there were many cases of collisions between software products if they tried to write to the comport at the same time.
> So, a long story short, I developed Win4K3Suite.
> It is completely different than passive comport sharing utilities.  It has 6 "Virtual radios" that act pretty well identical to the K3, KX3 or KX2.  It listens to commands from software products and then delivers results either from memory or if a write is necessary, then all threads are synchronized and prioritised so that one application cannot clobber the other.
> You can run 6 applications simultaneously as well as HRD Logbook.  It also works with hardware devices like SteppIr antennas and tuners.  Here is a video from Max, NG7M who uses it extensively to connect all kinds of software and hardware together. https://youtu.be/zbf7BPfcj4U
> It does use com0com, but not as a sharing tool but rather com0com actually behaves just like a null modem cable.  You create a Pair of comports which form a null modem cable and you connect one side to Win4K3 and the other to the other software.  It is 100% reliable and tested with thousands of users.
> There's a free trial and updates are free.  There are numerous videos under Documentation, Video Tutorials.
> In any case, I would not use HamLib for connections.  Always use Omni-rig.  Much more stable.
> 73 Tom
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