Thanks, Jim. I will definitely look into this! PBP2 says it uses Eltima drivers, and that's a good sign because of today's experiment.
FWIW, I tried today with the Eltima Serial Port Splitter, (http://www.eltima.com/products/serialsplitter/) and after a little messing around, I got the whole thing to work pretty well. There are two problems, however:
1) Eltima does splits, but doesn't do pairs. So to do APRS through the ISS, I needed to use VSPE to create a pair, and Eltima to do the split, running both programs at the same time.
2) Eltima wants $99.95 USD for their software, so I'll likely not be able to continue this setup after the 14-day free trial expires. Also, you can't save configurations in the free trial, so the whole thing needs to be set up from scratch each time. I think if you pay the fee that problem goes away.--
Mark D. Johns, KØMDJ Decorah, Iowa USA EN43 ----------------------------------------------- "Heaven goes by favor; if it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in." ---Mark Twain
----- Original Message ----- From: Jim Jerzycke kq6ea@verizon.net To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2016 8:59 PM Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] VSPE 64-bit splitter
I fought with issues like this on the station PC down at NI6BB.
I *never* got things to share the com port until I used LBP2, which is a similar bridge program.
Id just about given up, and thought I'd give it one last try after I installed the LP=PAN panadaptor for our ancient Kenwood TS-850.
Fo;;owing the instructions, I had port sharing between the panadptor (it uses PowerSDR), FLDIGI, and ACLog.
Give it a try, it's free.
http://www.telepostinc.com/LPB2.html
73, Jim KQ6EA