Only you can decide how much PC you need to do what you want to do. If you are just control and logging you can get by with 2-4G of RAM and a fairly modest 160 gig disk drive, and a dual core. Even though the K3s has the USB port I would still get something that would allow you to add one or more real serial port via some flavor of PCI. You never know...
A more economical approach is to get a refurbished PC. I currently use a refurbished HP with an added 8 port serial card for my RTTY work (I like hardware modems...). I think it cost me $200 for the PC at the time. And I recently purchased another one for my company that came with Win7 64-bit Pro, for just $75. I use tigerdirect.com but there are many such vendors to choose from. Have fun! 73 jeff wk6i On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 9:53 AM, Jerry <[email protected]> wrote: > Now that I have had my k3s on the air for a couple of months I'm ready to > interface it to a computer. I am planning on a dedicated PC just for use in > the shack. My only uses (that I can think of now) are logging and control > of the k3s, perhaps remotely at some point. > > > It seems to me an I7 processor of any speed would be adequate with a 500gb > SSD and wifi capability to my LAN (I guess I could hard wire this). What > else do I need in the box in the way of interconnectivity? Any need for a > large amount of memory (>8gb)? > > > Any suggestions would be appreciated > > > Jerry, k1tgx > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 > Message delivered to [email protected] > -- Jeff Stai ~ [email protected] Twisted Oak Winery ~ http://www.twistedoak.com/ Facebook ~ http://www.facebook.com/twistedoak ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [email protected]
