Would like to hear more about your setup. How are you get the audio back to the rig, and keying? You controlling the K2 over serial, as far as PTT? -
David Wilburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] K4DGW K2 S/N 5982 On Tue, 2007-12-25 at 10:54 -0700, Jim Harris wrote: > Hi, > > Some of you may remember from 2-3 weeks ago that my K2 would not work with my > new Vista equipted laptop that did not have a serial port. Over the space of > several weeks I collected four adapters from various locations and none would > work with the K2 but they would work with my FT897D. The K2 would work with > both the serial port and USB port, with an adapter, on a home brew XP > computer. > > After literally weeks of throwing hardware at the problem and tweaking > everything available in the K2, the laptop and several contest/logging > programs. That included finding and installing all the latest drivers. I > finally decided to take off my amateur radio hat and put on my electronic > technician hat. Literally within minutes I found and resolved the problem. > There was ~300 millivolts AC and ~350 millivolts DC between the chassis of > the K2 and the laptop chassis. A short jumper cable between the two > corrected the problem. > > Now I can control the K2 from the laptop. As of yet I've not tryed to hook > up the audio to see if the K2 will transmit audio from the computer without a > ground loop problem. So when things calm down later on this Christmas Day I > will try the audio and see how that works. > > Thanks to everyone for their patience, time and support. > > Merry Christmas and 73, > > Jim, AB0UK > K2 S/N 4787 > _______________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Post to: [email protected] > You must be a subscriber to post to the list. > Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm > Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
