[Elecraft] Very late to the party - computer rig control and sound card modes for K3

[Paul Barlow]

Dear Elecrafters,

I am very late to the party. For various reasons I have been QRT for a few years and I'm just now getting back on the air. I'm still using a paper log, and QRP CW is my 'thing'.

My rig is a K3, serial no. in the 7000's. I have the KUSB cable, which I have only used to update the firmware. Could I use this to connect to a pc and have rig control via this cable? Say for interfacing with a logging program?

Also, I've never used the FT8 type modes. I understand they use the pc for all the signal processing, and I could interface the K3 directly using audio cables and VOX. I see that there are products available like the SignaLink which interface with a pc using usb, which I think might be a less fiddly option.

I guess these subjects have been beaten to death years ago, is there somewhere I could look to find some concise information?

73,

Paul EI5KI