Well, after installing the X-keys TrueCOM and VCOM Software it appears that I was wrong. This makes the XKeys device emulate an RS232 device so you can use it for developing RS232 software. Oh well, it looked promising.
Tim Herrick, KQ8M [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of KQ8M Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2011 4:40 PM To: 'ab2tc'; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Contesting use >From the site of the XKeys products, they have a program called X-keys TrueCOM and VCOM Software. This will send commands through a serial port to a device. I have sent them an email asking how it works and if it will interface with a device such as K3. If it will, then you can setup commands to send to the K3 much the same as the K3 Utility program. I am not totally familiar with the XKeys themselves so am not sure how it works but it sure looks promising, Tim Herrick, KQ8M [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of ab2tc Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2011 3:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Contesting use Hello, I' cll chance another post to this very long thread. That device plugs into a USB port on the PC and as I understand it injects keystrokes and mouse events which are received by the program that has focus on the PC (the active window). Perhaps in a contest run situation that will always be the logging program, but for general use it's a big problem. Also you'd still have to program the K3 macros into the logging program and assign them to whatever you have programmed the "pod" to send when the various buttons are pushed. That's more programming, not less. I and many others have one of those Griffin wheels sitting unused on the shelf because of these shortcomings. The Ten-Tec pod talks directly to their rigs and I am sure that's what K3 users are asking for , too. AB2TC - Knut Don Wilhelm-4 wrote > > This sort of item is just the "pod" I was referring to. I do not know > of the specifics of this particular pod, but it holds promise. If the > buttons are capable of sending K3 commands as macros, it can be a winner. > > 73, > Don W3FPR > > > On 11/22/2011 10:23 PM, Bill W4ZV wrote: >> This looks very promising for 12 macro keys and a VFO: >> >> http://xkeys.com/xkeys/xk12JSH.php >> >> Has anyone done this with the K3? >> >> 73, Bill > <snip> > -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/Diversity-mode-preamp-tp7015033p7029335 .html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________________________ 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 ______________________________________________________________ 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 ______________________________________________________________ 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
