Bonito RadioCom 6
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The Elecraft K3 is reported to be supported by RadioCom 6 in several places
on Bonito's web site and elsewhere. However the K3 does not appear in the selectable list of radio drivers in the RadioCom 6 set up program. Does anyone know the trick to getting the K3 to work with Radio Com 6? I'm actually trying to get the KX3 to work with Radio Com 6. But it's* not* listed as a supported radio. So I figured I'd first try to get the K3 to work. If anyone knows the trick to getting the KX3 to work, if such exists, I'd very much like to know that. Thanks! Cheers, -- Bill McCarty Sent from my Cray CX1 supercomputer--I'm still saving for a CX2 ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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Try Kenwood as a radio Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone. - Original message - From: W B McCarty <[hidden email]> Date: 2016-05-10 4:03 AM (GMT-05:00) Date:2016-05-10 4:03 AM (GMT-05:00) To: [hidden email] Cc: Subject: [Elecraft] Bonito RadioCom 6The Elecraft K3 is reported to be supported by RadioCom 6 in several places
on Bonito's web site and elsewhere. However the K3 does not appear in the selectable list of radio drivers in the RadioCom 6 set up program. Does anyone know the trick to getting the K3 to work with Radio Com 6? I'm actually trying to get the KX3 to work with Radio Com 6. But it's* not* listed as a supported radio. So I figured I'd first try to get the K3 to work. If anyone knows the trick to getting the KX3 to work, if such exists, I'd very much like to know that. Thanks! Cheers, -- Bill McCarty Sent from my Cray CX1 supercomputer--I'm still saving for a CX2 ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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According to the Bonito web site the Elecraft K3 is supported, but there is no indication that the KX3 is supported.
73, Bob Nobis - N7RJN [hidden email] > On May 10, 2016, at 06:36, tomb18 <[hidden email]> wrote: > > Try Kenwood as a radio Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone. - Original message - From: W B McCarty <[hidden email]> Date: 2016-05-10 4:03 AM (GMT-05:00) Date:2016-05-10 4:03 AM (GMT-05:00) To: [hidden email] Cc: Subject: [Elecraft] Bonito RadioCom 6The Elecraft K3 is reported to be supported by RadioCom 6 in several places > on Bonito's web site and elsewhere. However the K3 does not appear in the > selectable list of radio drivers in the RadioCom 6 set up program. > > Does anyone know the trick to getting the K3 to work with Radio Com 6? > > I'm actually trying to get the KX3 to work with Radio Com 6. But it's* > not* listed > as a supported radio. So I figured I'd first try to get the K3 to work. If > anyone knows the trick to getting the KX3 to work, if such exists, I'd very > much like to know that. > > Thanks! > > Cheers, > > -- > Bill McCarty > > Sent from my Cray CX1 supercomputer--I'm still saving for a CX2 > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[hidden email] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [hidden email] > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[hidden email] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [hidden email] > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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HiThe Kenwood protocol is the same as the Elecraft protocol for commands such as frequency, band etc. I would try using one of the Kenwood radios for the K3 and kx3. There's lots of equipment out there that will work if you do this and the software doesn't try to identify the radio.Tomva2fsq.com
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.-------- Original message --------From: Robert Nobis <[hidden email]> Date: 2016-05-10 9:59 AM (GMT-05:00) To: tomb18 <[hidden email]> Cc: [hidden email], [hidden email] Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Bonito RadioCom 6 According to the Bonito web site the Elecraft K3 is supported, but there is no indication that the KX3 is supported. 73, Bob Nobis - N7RJN [hidden email] > On May 10, 2016, at 06:36, tomb18 <[hidden email]> wrote: > > Try Kenwood as a radio Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone. - Original message - From: W B McCarty <[hidden email]> Date: 2016-05-10 4:03 AM (GMT-05:00) Date:2016-05-10 4:03 AM (GMT-05:00) To: [hidden email] Cc: Subject: [Elecraft] Bonito RadioCom 6The Elecraft K3 is reported to be supported by RadioCom 6 in several places > on Bonito's web site and elsewhere. However the K3 does not appear in the > selectable list of radio drivers in the RadioCom 6 set up program. > > Does anyone know the trick to getting the K3 to work with Radio Com 6? > > I'm actually trying to get the KX3 to work with Radio Com 6. But it's* > not* listed > as a supported radio. So I figured I'd first try to get the K3 to work. If > anyone knows the trick to getting the KX3 to work, if such exists, I'd very > much like to know that. > > Thanks! > > Cheers, > > -- > Bill McCarty > > Sent from my Cray CX1 supercomputer--I'm still saving for a CX2 > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[hidden email] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [hidden email] > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[hidden email] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [hidden email] > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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Actually, Elecraft uses the Kenwood protocol. When I got my first K3 I told my
logging program it was my 12-year-old TS-870. On 5/10/2016 10:11 AM, tomb18 wrote: > HiThe Kenwood protocol is the same as the Elecraft protocol for commands such as frequency, band etc. I would try using one of the Kenwood radios for the K3 and kx3. There's lots of equipment out there that will work if you do this and the software doesn't try to identify the radio.Tomva2fsq.com > > > Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.-------- Original message --------From: Robert Nobis <[hidden email]> Date: 2016-05-10 9:59 AM (GMT-05:00) To: tomb18 <[hidden email]> Cc: [hidden email], [hidden email] Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Bonito RadioCom 6 > According to the Bonito web site the Elecraft K3 is supported, but there is no indication that the KX3 is supported. > > 73, > > > Bob Nobis - N7RJN > [hidden email] > > > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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Thanks for all the information!
To my surprise, Bonito answered with lightning speed. Per Bonito, the specific Kenwood model to use with the K3 is the TS2000. I had tried the TS570 and TS870 without success before posting here. (But I was actually using a KX3, not a K3, as explained below; presumably a K3 would have worked, as stated to me by Bonito.) As I wrote the KX3 is not listed as officially supported. My hope was that the KX3 might be similar enough to the K3 that if the K3 worked the KX3 would also work. My thinking was that since the Kenwood driver works with the K3 then the driver can't be all that particular. However, specifying TS2000 as the radio did not work in the context of a USB connection between the KX3 and PC and nothing other than the PC attached to the Bonito dongle, which is a recommended configuration. There remains the possibility of making a serial connection between the KX3 and the Bonito dongle, which might do the trick. Doing so would require a custom cable with a DB-9 on one side and connections to the KX3's ACC1, ACC2, and phone out jacks on the other. Details are given in the entry pertaining to the K3 in the table at http://www.bonito.net/service/make_radio_list.php3?language=en&R1=LB#HAM <http://www.bonito.net/service/make_radio_list.php3?language=en&R1=LB#HAM.>. I did specifically request that Bonito support the KX3. Bonito has not responded to my request; I don't anticipate that they will do so. Before closing I should share my opinion that RadioCom is one of the hardest programs to configure and among the least reliable contemporary PC programs I've used. I put up with it because it needs to be configured from scratch only once and because when it does work I find it useful and convenient. I wouldn't want anyone to purchase the program based on my mention without first reading some of the many reviews available, including those on eHam.net <http://www.eham.net/reviews/detail/4610>, where at the time of this writing the program had received an overall score of 1.4/5 [sic]. Cheers, On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 1:48 PM, Wes <[hidden email]> wrote: > Actually, Elecraft uses the Kenwood protocol. When I got my first K3 I > told my logging program it was my 12-year-old TS-870. > > On 5/10/2016 10:11 AM, tomb18 wrote: > >> HiThe Kenwood protocol is the same as the Elecraft protocol for commands >> such as frequency, band etc. I would try using one of the Kenwood radios >> for the K3 and kx3. There's lots of equipment out there that will work if >> you do this and the software doesn't try to identify the >> radio.Tomva2fsq.com >> >> >> Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.-------- Original message >> --------From: Robert Nobis <[hidden email]> Date: 2016-05-10 9:59 AM >> (GMT-05:00) To: tomb18 <[hidden email]> Cc: [hidden email], >> [hidden email] Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Bonito RadioCom 6 >> According to the Bonito web site the Elecraft K3 is supported, but there >> is no indication that the KX3 is supported. >> >> 73, >> >> >> Bob Nobis - N7RJN >> [hidden email] >> >> >> >> > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[hidden email] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [hidden email] > -- Bill McCarty Sent from my Cray CX1 supercomputer--I'm still saving for a CX2 ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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Elecraft does sell a DB-9 to 3.5mm cable to work between a serial port
and the KX3. it is the KXSERa (3.5mm to DB9-F): Extra Cable 3.5mm to RS232 DB9-F for KX3. The DB9 connector is female, but if necessary you can add a gender changer. 73, Don W3FPR On 5/10/2016 5:23 PM, W B McCarty wrote: > There remains the possibility of making a serial connection between the KX3 > and the Bonito dongle, which might do the trick. Doing so would require a > custom cable with a DB-9 on one side and connections to the KX3's ACC1, > ACC2, and phone out jacks on the other. Details are given in the entry > pertaining to the K3 in the table at > http://www.bonito.net/service/make_radio_list.php3?language=en&R1=LB#HAM > <http://www.bonito.net/service/make_radio_list.php3?language=en&R1=LB#HAM.>. > > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 4:23 PM, W B McCarty <[hidden email]> wrote:
> ... I should share my opinion that RadioCom is one of the > hardest programs to configure and among the least reliable contemporary PC > programs I've used.... ============= A few years ago I bought and tried a Bonito program. At that time the decoding of nearly every mode was so error-filled as to be useless. I spent some time comparing it to other digital programs available at the time, especially that vintage of MixW. Finally I gave up. Hopefully, things have changed. Commercial-quality software is not as easy to develop as many enterpreneurially-minded programmers think it is. Bonito needed to have a lot of turnover in its senior development team. And to be fair, perhaps it has. Some of the other ham software providers have upgraded their capabilities with new and more skilled developers, and maybe the same is true of Bonito. But they left a bad impression with me. Tony KT0NY ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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Hi all,
Fldigi remains as one of the premiere data mode applications. It is multi-platform and works well. It does not have all the 'pizazz" of other applications, but it works quite well and is free to use. Configuration via Hamlib or Rigcat is not difficult - read the instructions. Another application that will give you several other rig control functions is Win4K3. It does cost money for extended use, but you can try it for 30 days. Of course Ham Radio Deluxe will offer other capabilities, and I believe the free downlaod of version 5 is still available. There are others - DXLabs has a whole suite of applications and DX commander as well as other applications can do a variety of things for you. The DXLabs suite is freeware. 73, Don W3FPR On 5/10/2016 8:23 PM, Tony Estep wrote: > On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 4:23 PM, W B McCarty <[hidden email]> wrote: > >> ... I should share my opinion that RadioCom is one of the >> hardest programs to configure and among the least reliable contemporary PC >> programs I've used.... > ============= > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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To add to Don's list for Mac users, RUMlogNG, by DL2RUM is a
logging program. The main logger is oriented toward DXers, but there is a contest logging sub-program. It has integration with flgidi, and can bring the K3 internal PSK/RTTY decode/encode to the computer screen. It is available free from the app store, although there is a "donate" button which I suggest using if you like the program. 73 Bill AE6JV On 5/10/16 at 5:43 PM, [hidden email] (Don Wilhelm) wrote: >Fldigi remains as one of the premiere data mode applications. >It is multi-platform and works well. It does not have all the >'pizazz" of other applications, but it works quite well and is >free to use. > >Configuration via Hamlib or Rigcat is not difficult - read the instructions. > >Another application that will give you several other rig >control functions is Win4K3. It does cost money for extended >use, but you can try it for 30 days. > >Of course Ham Radio Deluxe will offer other capabilities, and I >believe the free downlaod of version 5 is still available. > >There are others - DXLabs has a whole suite of applications and >DX commander as well as other applications can do a variety of >things for you. The DXLabs suite is freeware. Bill Frantz | Ham radio contesting is a | Periwinkle (408)356-8506 | contact sport. | 16345 Englewood Ave www.pwpconsult.com | - Ken Widelitz K6LA / VY2TT | Los Gatos, CA 95032 ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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I can't speak highly enough of Rumlog. It has a very straightforward user
interface, fantastic LOTW and Clublog integration and all the database searching tools are there if you need them. Yes, it's free, but it's so good that I made a donation too. 73 Stephen G4SJP On 11 May 2016 at 22:27, Bill Frantz <[hidden email]> wrote: > To add to Don's list for Mac users, RUMlogNG, by DL2RUM is a logging > program. The main logger is oriented toward DXers, but there is a contest > logging sub-program. It has integration with flgidi, and can bring the K3 > internal PSK/RTTY decode/encode to the computer screen. It is available > free from the app store, although there is a "donate" button which I > suggest using if you like the program. > > 73 Bill AE6JV > > On 5/10/16 at 5:43 PM, [hidden email] (Don Wilhelm) wrote: > > Fldigi remains as one of the premiere data mode applications. It is >> multi-platform and works well. It does not have all the 'pizazz" of other >> applications, but it works quite well and is free to use. >> >> Configuration via Hamlib or Rigcat is not difficult - read the >> instructions. >> >> Another application that will give you several other rig control >> functions is Win4K3. It does cost money for extended use, but you can try >> it for 30 days. >> >> Of course Ham Radio Deluxe will offer other capabilities, and I believe >> the free downlaod of version 5 is still available. >> >> There are others - DXLabs has a whole suite of applications and DX >> commander as well as other applications can do a variety of things for >> you. The DXLabs suite is freeware. >> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > Bill Frantz | Ham radio contesting is a | Periwinkle > (408)356-8506 | contact sport. | 16345 Englewood Ave > www.pwpconsult.com | - Ken Widelitz K6LA / VY2TT | Los Gatos, CA 95032 > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[hidden email] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [hidden email] > Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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