Umm, adding a second serial port won't help if both apps need to talk to the K3!
Try running LP-Bridge, and connecting the two apps to (different) virtual serial ports that it uses. I don't use DX4WIN nor Digipan, but other combinations of apps seem to work quite well. http://www.telepostinc.com/LPB.html ~Iain / N6ML Lee Buller wrote: > You will need to get another COM port. If you have a desktop computer, that > is easy because you can buy a card to go into an expansion slot. Then you > would have COM1 - COM2 - COM3 etc. Now you can also go with a USB to Serial > adapter (Elecraft sells one) and then you can add addition COM ports with > that do-dad. But, they do work rather nicely in a lot of applications. I > blew up mine because of of some RF in the shack. Stopped working. I went > with the COM port card. You can get a card with two or four COM ports for > around 10 to 30 dollars. > > Lee - K0WA > > > The New Kansas QSO Party - August 29, Sat 9am-9pm and August 30 Sun 9am-3pm > CDT > More Info at: http://www.ksqsoparty.org/ > > In our day and age it seems that Common Sense is in short supply. If you > don't have any Common Sense - get some Common Sense and use it. If you can't > find any Common Sense, ask for help from somebody who has some Common Sense. > Is Common Sense divine? > > --- On Mon, 3/30/09, Stan Rowe <shrt...@chartermi.net> wrote: > From: Stan Rowe <shrt...@chartermi.net> > Subject: [Elecraft] K3 Serial Port > To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net > Date: Monday, March 30, 2009, 4:27 PM > > I'm missing or forgetting something rather basic I think. I have my > computer connected to my K3 with a serial cable. I normally use the > connection > for DX4WIN but sometimes want to use Digipan for PSK. Of course if I try to > use > Digipan while DX4WIN is running, I get a message about the port (serial cable) > already being in use (by DX4WIN). How can I connect the computer and K3 so > that > I can have both DX4WIN and DIgipan (and perhaps other programs in the future) > active at the same time. I feel like I ought to know the answer, but somehow > it > is escaping me. > > Thanks for your help. > Stan - K6VWE > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
