Looked around a bit more and perhaps NaP3 may be the way to go. I need to do a bit more research on this. Also looks like maybe LP-Bridge or LPB2 may be needed if I want the KX3 to get to multiple applications. Not sure on that one. I use the Mac version of the KX3 Utility and my logging program is MacLoggerDX (also a Mac app), so LPB2 may have no benefit for me, unless I can find a way for the virtual ports to be split between Win/XP and OS X.
One other thing that I'm concerned about is this "soundcard" issue. Not sure how to handle such things on an iMac. But I'll figger it out! :-) Jim / W6JHB On Feb 10, 2014, at 9:59 PM, Matt VK2RQ wrote: > If you are happy to run Windows XP under VMWare, then NaP3 will give you a > good experience. > > I briefly had a closer look at Quisk -- the problem is that is depends on > ALSA sound libraries, and since macports doesn't support this, a little bit > of hacking is required to remove this dependency and rely solely on the > portaudio libraries. There would also some (trivial) changes required to > remove dependencies on the linux parallel port driver. Not sure if someone > has already gone through this exercise yet or not. Otherwise, you would need > some basic coding skills to make it work. > > The I/Q output needs to be fed into a soundcard with stereo capability -- > this soundcard could be a USB soundcard such as the Soundblaster X-Fi. Most > of the PC SDR applications can then use this to display a waterfall. The I/Q > streams don't contain digital data or anything fancy like that, rather they > are simple analogue signals. This is why you need a soundcard or other A/D > convterter to digitise the signal in order to for the SDR application to > process it. It is convenient to have some basic integration with the radio > (ie. via the KXUSB or KXSER cable) so that the application can read the VFO > frequency from the radio and display appropriate frequency labels on the > spectrum/waterfall display, but this is a nice-to-have. > > 73, Matt VK2RQ > ______________________________________________________________ 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
