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Connection Notes:
1.
My K3 has a mono cable running from the “Line In” port to my
computer sound card’s “Line Out” port.
2.
My K3 has a stereo cable running from the “Line Out” port to my
computer sound card’s “Line In” port.
3.
My K3 has a 9 pin serial cable running from the RS-232 port to my
computer’s COM1 hardware serial port.
4.
My K3 has the MENU CONFIG
a.
PTT-KEY set to rtS-dtr
5.
My K3 has the MENU MAIN
a.
MIC SEL set to Line In
When the LP_Bridge software loads on your computer (mine is in my
Startup folder and runs immediately upon the computer booting up).
You must first activate the K3 Com Port using the physical hardware
COM Port on your computer. I am using COM 1 with 38400 baud and
have placed a checkmark in the box in front of “Auto Connect” for
each of the Com Ports I am using. By doing this, when you start
your computer and turn your radio on, the LP_Bridge software will
immediately connect to the K3 and then within seconds activate the
“Virtual Com Ports” you have selected.
Set the “Virtual Com Ports” you wish to use. As seen in my example,
I use “Virtual Com Ports”:
COM5 for my day to day logging program
DX4Win
COM6 for N1MM
COM7 for CW Decoder, WinPSK and MMTTY
As I only operate CW, PSK or RTTY programs one at a time, I only set
one “Virtual Com Port” for these programs. As I wish to be able to
run my DX4Win logging program most of the time and N1MM logger
during contest activities, I have set one “Virtual Com Port” for
each
Remember to individually configure your programs such as DX4Win,
N1MM, MMTTY, WinPSK, etc. to operate on the same COM PORT you have
specified in LP_Bridge. These programs and others like them are
written to be operated on hardware serial ports, BUT they will
operate perfectly on the “Virtual Com Port”s when you use LP_Bridge.
Send the software author a contribution – this is fantastic
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