Ken A variety of inexpensive (3rd party) devices are on the market to do exactly as you propose.
One source is NetBurner: http://www.netburner.com/products.html Digi also sells top grade products. (I am only a customer of these firms.) My personal experience trying to lobby multiple well-known and popular 'premium' ham application developers, whose products I have purchased, to support even basic existing Elecraft rig functionality, via well-documented serial port command syntax, was ... discouraging. I see the world from their point of view as well. Hams have a wide variety of skill levels these days. You or I might be able to adopt IP addressable rig functionality with ease but others might find it most challenging. The "help line" costs of a technology shift like this might be higher than the product's revenues could support. I might suggest (as I have here in the past) that instead Elecraft offer an I/O module upgrade that uses Bluetooth. This interface could support well-established wireless audio and serial port profiles. There'd be no new wires - hooray! - hence, no RFI or grounding issues, and modern computer operating systems already support these interfaces, making them readily accessible to programmers. What a terrific treat it would be for me to use a wireless digital-audio headset like this one: http://www.blueparrott.com/products/blueparrottb250XT.html while that same wireless interface supported a Bluetooth mouse for my P3 and a Bluetooth serial port for my computer. As a plus, the K3 cabinet would not need to have another connector on it, so, I could even keep my existing RS-232 port! 73 Steve KZ1X/4 K1, K2, K3, etc. Celebrating my 11th year of daily Elecraft reflector lurking ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
