Sounds like a smart addition to me. Protects people from transmitting into something horrible on accident. Always puts a smile on your face when software protects you from doing something stupid on accident.
On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 19:51 -0700, wayne burdick wrote: > Dave, > > I wanted to run a possible solution past you. > > I could prevent the rig from being keyed (by any method) during the > first couple of seconds that it's powered up. Instead, it could detect > this case, and display a repeating message (something like: "KEYLINE IS > ACTIVE") until you either remove the source of the keying or turn power > off. > > Thoughts on this? > > 73, > Wayne > N6KR > > > Dave Hachadorian, K6LL wrote: > > > I've got my K3 set up for cw on Field Day with a laptop usb > > port driving a usb to serial converter. Rig control and cw > > keying are done over the serial cable, using the K3's > > built-in ability to send cw from pin 4(?) of the rs-232 > > cable. > > > > Everything works fine, but I got quite a scare when I turned > > on the K3 and it came up keyed-down 120 watts into no > > antenna. It seems that if the laptop is not running the > > logging program, rs-232 pin 4 can very well be in a key-down > > state. > > > --- > > http://www.elecraft.com > > _______________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > You must be a subscriber to post to the list. > Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm > Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
