PC<>P3<K3 and Ultrabeam controllor RS232 connections.

[iw1ayd]

Hi all.
On behalf of a good friend I would ask if there is anyone out there is
using or having experience using a configuration like this:
PC<>P3<>K3>UB cntrl.
Starting from a PC, connecting a P3 and then a K3, all via RS232, then
via the same RS232 having chained a Ultrabeam (UB) dynamic antenna
controller.
I mean a UB as a paralleled target, over TX data for the K3 VFO data,
coming from the K3 both as a result of any manual or logger charnges
of the K3 QRG.

I don't have all this, as I lack the dynamic antenna, but I am pretty
sure that somebody had already solved successfully all that. Thus
having the Ultrabeam controller getting data from the K3. As to follow
with motion, UB, K3 and logger changes to a new band or in band
segment changes. Isn't?

I ask all this in the more general terms, i.e. cables schema,
preferred speeds, reference url's or and so on. Any information could
be valuable from whoever had made this working.

 TU in advance, BTW feel free to drop me a mail out of list, not to
use too much space here.


          73 de iw1ayd Salvo
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[Vic Rosenthal]

Salvo,

I don't have an Ultrabeam, but I have an older Palstar AT-AUTO antenna
tuner hooked up like this. I have simply paralleled the RS232 RXD input
to the tuner with the TXD line from the P3 that goes to the computer. I
did not connect the TXD line of the tuner.

The tuner is in a listen-only configuration. In order for this to work,
my logging program must be running. It polls the K3 and the tuner sees
the data from the K3.

I believe some are doing the same thing with SteppIR antennas.

73,
Vic, 4X6GP/K2VCO
Rehovot, Israel
http://www.qsl.net/k2vco/

On 6 Oct 2015 12:18, Salvatore Irato wrote:

> Hi all.
> On behalf of a good friend I would ask if there is anyone out there is
> using or having experience using a configuration like this:
> PC<>P3<>K3>UB cntrl.
> Starting from a PC, connecting a P3 and then a K3, all via RS232, then
> via the same RS232 having chained a Ultrabeam (UB) dynamic antenna
> controller.
> I mean a UB as a paralleled target, over TX data for the K3 VFO data,
> coming from the K3 both as a result of any manual or logger charnges
> of the K3 QRG.
>
> I don't have all this, as I lack the dynamic antenna, but I am pretty
> sure that somebody had already solved successfully all that. Thus
> having the Ultrabeam controller getting data from the K3. As to follow
> with motion, UB, K3 and logger changes to a new band or in band
> segment changes. Isn't?
>
> I ask all this in the more general terms, i.e. cables schema,
> preferred speeds, reference url's or and so on. Any information could
> be valuable from whoever had made this working.
>
>   TU in advance, BTW feel free to drop me a mail out of list, not to
> use too much space here.
>
>
>            73 de iw1ayd Salvo

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[Don Wilhelm-4]

That will work *if* (and only if) the RS-232 drivers in the control box
for the UB are capable of being disconnected from their normal RS-232 lines.
That is how the SteppIR control box can work in that configuration - it
only listens to the RS-232 traffic, it does not send any traffic over
the RS-232 connection.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 10/6/2015 5:18 AM, Salvatore Irato wrote:
> Hi all.
> On behalf of a good friend I would ask if there is anyone out there is
> using or having experience using a configuration like this:
> PC<>P3<>K3>UB cntrl.
> Starting from a PC, connecting a P3 and then a K3, all via RS232, then
> via the same RS232 having chained a Ultrabeam (UB) dynamic antenna
> controller.
>

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