Re: [Elecraft] Help with K3 ports for CW Skimmer CAT

Posted by Julian, G4ILO on Dec 11, 2009; 8:52pm
URL: http://elecraft.85.s1.nabble.com/Help-with-K3-ports-for-CW-Skimmer-CAT-tp4151121p4153706.html

Larry, VE3LR wrote

Thanks for the reply Julian (I am a frequent visitor to your site so I feel like I already know you!).....for some reason the moderator bounced my posting saying I wasn't registered, which I am.
Anyhow, I am curious if you know the answer to this.......I have HRD shut down, would this still affect CW Skimmer's ability to "perform" CAT?

Nope. In fact Skimmer like any other program would have trouble connecting to the K3 while HRD or anything else was running, unless you were running a serial port splitter like VSPE or LP-Bridge which I feel sure you're not.

Either you've got the wrong settings or Skimmer doesn't like your USB to serial adapter. I can't think of any other explanation. It certainly would be worth trying LP-Bridge as that would (or at least should - I don't use HRD or LP-Bridge so I've never tried it) let you use Skimmer and HRD at the same time, which I imagine would be quite useful.