I went to grab the latest Prolific driver (2009/12/2) and loaded that I was able to get a connection. The Prolific COM5 port did not show up on the HRD until I set the com port driver properties speed to 34K. That part of this I do not understand but I will live with it. However, in spite of that properties setting of the speed, the HRD program would not successfully connect (and, read frequency) until I set the port speed to 4800 on the HRD connection dialog.
I need to read more on my K3 to see if it has auto-detect speed or if it is set to 4800. 73, phil, K7PEH On Mar 9, 2010, at 8:19 PM, Phil Hystad wrote: > Dave, > > Thanks for your comments and suggestions but I should not need to change the > com port number. I have been scanning the Internet and finding that there is > no lack of problems with the prolific drivers and I am thinking I might just > go buy some other interface. > > I am willing to go out and buy another serial/USB interface cable if someone > suggests one that will work both with the K3 Utility as well as HRD (I do not > need this to run simultaneously though). > > 73, phil, K7PEH > > > On Mar 9, 2010, at 7:54 PM, David Herring, K6DCH wrote: > >> There may be a way to tell you prolific drivers to be something else other >> than com5...say maybe com3? >> >> I have a similar setup but with different serial interface and hence >> different drivers. I had to set the driver to be, in my case, com2 in order >> for HRD to use it. >> >> 73, >> Dave. K6DCH >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Mar 9, 2010, at 5:44 PM, Phil Hystad <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I rarely dip into my Windows laptop but I wanted to check out something >>> with HRD (Ham Radio Deluxe) so I thought I would hook it up to my K3 (I had >>> it configured to work with my Icom 756 Pro III already). So, I chose to do >>> a new connection setup for the K3 after I had setup the serial interface >>> (using the serial/USB cable from Elecraft). I had already run the K3 USB >>> so I figured this should work with HRD. >>> >>> But, problems. I am wondering if HRD can use the driver setup for this >>> serial interface? I first ran HRD and when I did the new connection I had >>> COM3 available but nothing else. I tried with COM3, no good. So, I >>> shutdown HRD and started up K3 USB utility. It listed COM5 (not COM3). I >>> did the connection and port test and all seems to work. I shutdown the K3 >>> USB utility. Started up HRD and no COM5 is available. >>> >>> So, it seems like HRD does not see the ports created by the driver >>> installed (Prolific drivers) for the Elecraft Serial/USB interface. >>> >>> Before I start debugging this problem maybe there is an obvious answer from >>> those who have already done this? Is there something that I am missing? >>> Does anyone successfully use HRD with the Prolific drivers and the Elecraft >>> supplied serial/USB cable? >>> >>> 73, phil, K7PEH >>> >>> ______________________________________________________________ >>> 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 > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 ______________________________________________________________ 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
