Hi Martin, I'm glad you're finding this feature promising. It is still very much in the experimental phase, and I won't be making further changes to it for quite awhile. But I'll save your suggestions.
73, Wayne N6KR On Sep 10, 2012, at 1:12 PM, Martin Storli - LA8OKA wrote: > I Just tryed this now, and wow, this is cool!! > > I now have a remote panel (the KX3) for my TS-590!! :-) > > I can now tune and change modes on my TS-590 from the KX3. > > But the KX3 turns of all the receive/transmit functionality so I > didn't got any panadapter, and I can't use any of the other unik > features of the KX3, so I'm only halfway there. > And it only goes one way, so tuning the TS-590 will not tune the > KX3. I haven't yet tryed on the K2 (need to make a new cable for > that), but I guess it's the same. > If I dare suggest a new meny option who lets the RX/TX on the KX3 > remain on, I will get about 90% to the target. :-) > (The remaining is 5% antenna switching, which is easy > http://www.herostechnology.co.uk/pages/RF_Filters/filters.html#SPLTBYP > and 5% for leting the TS-590 control the KX3, the last 5 % I can't > see any easy sollution for.) > > > Martin Storli > LA8OKA > Oslo, Norway > > ARCTICPEAK's Radio pages! > http://www.arcticpeak.com/radio.htm > > Fra: Martin Storli - LA8OKA <[email protected]> > Til: Wayne Burdick <[email protected]>; Elecraft Reflector > <[email protected] > > > Sendt: Mandag, 10. september 2012 17.07 > Emne: [Elecraft] Vedr: [KX3] Does the KX3 support the Kenwood Master/ > Slave connection? > > Many thanks Wayne! > > I have read that post but I didn't realize at the time what I could > do with it. :-) > (Wayne post so others don't need to do a search: > http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/KX3-use-as-a-k3-remote-rig-td7562242.html#a7562268 > > ) > > The reason I asked about the Kenwood Master/Slave is of course > because I have some Kenwoods on the table. > But the Autoinformation may be better for my intended use, since no > pushing on buttons are necesarry. > > What I want to try out is to use the KX3 as a panadapter with my > TS-2000X or TS-590 as transmitters (because they have 100 watt, and > the PA for the KX3 isn't ready), and to do so, the KX3 needs to > follow the frequency on the Kenwood transceiver. > > Remote control of my K2 is also very interesting. :-) I must try > that when I have time! > > But the post only describes what to do on the controlling KX3, what > needs to be done in order for the KX3 to receive frequency > information? > > Martin Storli > LA8OKA > Oslo, Norway > > ARCTICPEAK's Radio pages! > http://www.arcticpeak.com/radio.htm > > > ________________________________ > Fra: Wayne Burdick <[email protected]> > Til: Martin Storli - LA8OKA <[email protected]> > Kopi: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Sendt: Mandag, 10. september 2012 16.45 > Emne: Re: [Elecraft] [KX3] Does the KX3 support the Kenwood Master/ > Slave connection? > > Martin, > > The KX3 and K3 do not support Kenwood's master/slave protocol. > However, they do support different variations of Elecraft's own > master/slave protocol. This allows "remote-rig" operation with > various different hardware configurations. > > The K3 version of the protocol is extremely fast, and provides > virtually 100% emulation of a remote K3 by a local (terminal) K3. > > The KX3 implementation is at present experimental, but it will > provide limited control of a KX3, K3, or K2 (only VFOs, mode, > bandwidth, and RIT). I posted on this topic in detail quite recently. > > 73, > Wayne > N6KR > > > On Sep 10, 2012, at 5:09 AM, Martin Storli - LA8OKA wrote: > > > Does the KX3 support the Kenwood Master/Slave connection? > > This could be usefull in a SO2R contest operating environment, > Multi-Multi contest operating environment and on DXpeditions. > > > > (For those of you that aren't familiar with the Kenwood Master/ > Slave, it is a system consisting of 2 Kenwood transceivers, where > one transceiver is set-up as a master and the other is set-up as a > slave, the transceivers are connected with an serial cable, and this > set-up alows transfering of the operating frequency from the master > transceiver to the slave transceiver. > > But what have all this Kenwood-stuff to do with Elecraft, you may > ask? It's because Kenwood transceivers and Elecraft transceivers > both use the Kenwood protokol, they speak the same language you may > say.) > > > > Martin Storli > > LA8OKA > > Oslo, Norway > > > > ARCTICPEAK's Radio pages! > > http://www.arcticpeak.com/radio.htm > > ______________________________________________________________ > > 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
