I used LP-Bridge for many years and never was satisfied with the reliability... plus the time it takes to create the virtual ports was always irritating to me. It is pretty good and the price sure is right however!
I have switched to Win4K3Suite with com0com for the CAT sharing of the K3(s) and it has been rock solid. As others have mentioned, you can share the K3 CAT interface with up to 4 other applications and the lastest version of Win4K3Suite also adds 3 or 4 (off the top of my head) read only interfaces that you can use... i.e. like an SDA100 SteppIR controller or an Amplifier that will track the transceiver frequency. VSPE looks pretty good, but the license feed for the signed 64 bit version is ~$25 and that gets you half way to the cost of Win4K3Suite... Win4K3WSuite in and of itself is really nice. The more I use it, the more I like it... for example, pre defined RX EQ settings are so nice where you can just push a button and change the EQ settings on the K3 in a few seconds and if you are tweaking the EQ settings, you get to hear things live without having to leave the Config menu. Anyway, I'm really like the spectrum display to in combination with an LP-PAN2. It's become the replacement to NaP3. It's all together just a much more reliable solution than LP-Bridge and NaP3 IMHO. I can't live without my LP-PAN2 by the way... but now I no longer need to deal with LP-Bridge and Win4K3Suite starts right up with no delay where the com0com ports are created when Windows 10 starts up. Max NG7M On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 6:07 PM, Tim Tucker <[email protected]> wrote: > I have used LP Bridge in the past but found that it crashed too often to > suit my tastes. I am currently using VSPE 64 bit on two machines (for the > past 2 years) without any problems. > > Tim > > On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 9:31 AM, buddy s <[email protected]> wrote: > > > i have a laptop, win 10, usb cabled to my k3, and the com port is > > identified as com3. i would like to use ham radio deluxe and logic > > simultaneously. > > > > if someone has a similar situation and solved the problem i would > > appreciate the details. i have tried VSPE, unsuccessfully. > > > > thanks, es > > > > 73 de > > W3BS, Buddy Spiegel > > ______________________________________________________________ > > 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] > > > > > > -- > Owner, worldwidedx.com > AE6LX, Amateur Radio > ______________________________________________________________ > 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] > -- M. George ______________________________________________________________ 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]
