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KComm updated
3 November 2010 | by Today I released a new version of my logging and data communications program for Elecraft transceivers, KComm, on my website. The program is developed in Lazarus / Free Pascal and is released under the GPL.
Apart from numerous bug fixes and small improvements I have made in the months since the last release, the new version 1.9 allows the receive and transmit sound devices to be selected separately. This is something that is becoming increasingly necessary, though users will have to play “guess the device number” as I don’t know how to find out the names of the sound devices in Free Pascal in order to display them in a list box. The program also supports the K3 “TB” command which allows it to get the text decoded by the K3 DSP in CW, PSK or RTTY modes and display it on the screen just the same as if you were using a sound card program.
Although I have given up developing ham radio programs in general, I am continuing to update and maintain KComm as it is the only one of my programs that I continue to use regularly. However this will be the last version for which I will be able to provide a compiled Linux binary. The screen of the old Linux laptop that I used to compile it has almost failed so I will not in future have a computer on which I can do this.
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Its always a shame to see Linux applications vanish from view. Perhaps you could run a Linux virtual machine using the freely downloadable VMWare workstation? I don’t have an Elecraft rig myself but I know that Linux in the ham shack is gradually gaining popularity and good applications interfacing like yours are sometimes hard to find.