HUGE FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE, guys!!! The originator wanted a IF, shorthand for interface. He should have written it I/F and then all this extraneous e-mail would have been avoided.
The KX3, like the K3 is a SDR, meaning it has a IQ mixer to produce the quadrature data streams for the internal micro-processor to use for recovering modulation of multiple kinds of modes. He is just wanting access at the digital level to the IQ data for use outside the radio. This is what is not available in the K3 design. I understand the K3 was designed several years ago and wasn't intended to run anything but Elecraft's proprietory sw. But times they do change - its 2011 and a whole lot is changing on the SDR scene if you really look. What some of us are asking is for it to be able to run other sw outside the box. It should not be that complicated to provide a digital port for exporting the IQ signal pair to an external computer. No body wants more soundcards...the request is exactly to avoid them. The other wish for a keyboard port would be nice for a lot of us that might use the KX3 for CW and internally supported DATA modes (Psk, RTTY are a couple that come to mind). I haven't read up on details that are out on the KX3, but now seems a good time to get any last minute design wishes expressed (for a radio going into production in 5-mo.). ----------------- I am still on the fence on what direction I want to go regarding the KX3. I have a FT-817 which was bought expressly for use as a 144-MHz IF for portable mw operations. It also can operate on ham satellites, though not crossband duplex, which is desirable. I may decide to sell off my FT-817 and some other stuff to raise cash for a KX3+2m transverter (embedded would be a nicety). But I l already have a 144-28 transverter for using my SDR-IQ, which can be used with the KX3. Only problem is it outputs 20mw for mw transverter I/F, so an upgrade would be needed for 5w. I am assuming the KX3 will have a transverter I/F. 73, Ed - KL7UW, WD2XSH/45 ====================================== BP40IQ 500 KHz - 10-GHz www.kl7uw.com EME: 50-1.1kw?, 144-1.4kw, 432-100w, 1296-60w, 3400-? DUBUS Magazine USA Rep [email protected] ====================================== ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
