I thought about this problem for a few minutes a few months ago. Decided it was not worth the hassle. Therefore, if I want a larger screen for the P3 then I would use an SVGA monitor that could be bought for $50 to $150 depending on lots of variables.
But, if you want full rig control (logging at least) on a Mac then the there are a handful of products that do that but they do not include panadapter features (as far as I know). As someone has suggested, you could possible use a frame grabber which would take the SVGA output of the P3/SVGA and then display the results with a suitable app on your mac but that seems to be going way overboard and I am betting with less than excellent results. Fast real-time response on the P3 screen may be difficult with a frame grabber approach. I think there could be a great "market" (although likely free software) for a good Mac interface to a K3 or KX3 that is akin to something like the Flex Radio PC software. This would require something different then a P3, the LP-Pan type solution instead of a P3, but the KX3 could interface directly with its I/Q output. 73, phil, K7PEH On Jul 10, 2014, at 4:14 PM, tom armour <wa...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Why not just look at the P3 display? Don't you need that to have the P3 > SVGA? I don't have a P3. > What about using a Softrock Lite IF to a USB sound card on the Macbook Air? > The Softrock Lite is about $22 but you have to build it. You could also get > a LP-Pan2, but you already have the P3 so you may not want to do that. > A quick google search turned up > this:http://www.epiphan.com/products/frame-grabbers/vga2usb/ > It is $299 list price, but there should be other less expensive vga-to-usb > devices that can be used on a Mac. > Hope that gives you a place to start. Although I may not be understanding > what you are asking al. I do have a Softrock light IF to a sound card on my > Windows PC. I have not tried it to my Macbook Pro, but that is a company > machine. > Tom - wa4ta > >> From: eda...@law.du.edu >> To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net >> Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 20:15:43 +0000 >> Subject: [Elecraft] Update on a Question About the P3 SVGA and Mac Computers >> >> A week or two ago I posted this question: Would it be possible to have >> the P3's SVGA output displayed on the screen of a MacAir computer, and >> have a logging program resident on the same computer, and be able to >> toggle between the two with a simple computer keyboard stroke? Neat trick >> for contesting if there's no room for dual monitors, eh? >> >> The simple answer (but see below) turns out to be no - with some dongling >> older Macs could operate as "dumb" monitors but newer ones (like my >> MacAir) cannot, a fact I had confirmed by a tech at the local Apple store. >> I was told that only the 27" monitor (too big for my space) might be able >> to do that, and maybe it couldn't either. >> >> I was referred by a member of this reflector (thank you) to a >> computer-consultant friend of his, from whom I learned that there was no >> direct way to do it but that it could be done if the P3's SVGA output >> could be made into the electronic equivalent of an Internet web site. >> Moreover, he said, that should be possible using something called >> "Raspberry Pi." >> >> Right. For an EE or computer expert, maybe; but not for a Liberal Arts >> sort of guy. Even my Internet research about "Raspberry Pi" was >> entertaining but incomprehensible. But that aside, does anyone know of a >> way to feed the P3 output into a server sort of thing and have it come out >> as something that will fool the MacAir into thinking it's a web site, >> hence toggleable vis-a-vis the resident logging program? >> >> If it turns out to be patentable I'm willing to share the royalties . . . >> >> Ted, KN1CBR >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> Message delivered to wa...@hotmail.com > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to phys...@mac.com ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
