Yes, Joe, you're right about that, and the HDSDR software does just that, it works very well on the KX3. :-) I used it during this weekend WAE SSB contest and it worked very well, it was quite easy to see the stations calling, even the weaker stations calling in between the big guns. Using this I was able to work stations as close as 550 Hz, the TS-590 and the KX3 is pretty good receivers so it was not too difficult to copy stations that where close. It did however affected the QSO-rate, hi, hi. A warning to others, if you plan to do well in a contest, DO NOT get a new toy a few days before the contest, hi, hi!!
Martin Storli LA8OKA Oslo, Norway ARCTICPEAK's Radio pages! http://www.arcticpeak.com/radio.htm Fra: "Joe Subich, W4TV" <[email protected]> Til: [email protected] Sendt: Mandag, 10. september 2012 17.42 Emne: Re: [Elecraft] Vedr: [KX3] Does the KX3 support the Kenwood Master/Slave connection? > 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? The panadapter software would need to directly control the KX3 based on the primary transceiver's operating frequency (with or without an IF offset). It needs to translate the Kenwood "auto-information" (or frequency polling) data to the appropriate"FA" commands to set the KX3 receive frequency as necessary to track the primary transceiver. This is no different than slaving a Flex-1500, Perseus, SDR-IQ, etc. to any other transceiver using an RF splitter ("on frequency" panadapter - 1500, Perseus, SDR-IQ, etc.) or an IF tap ("IF" panadapter - LP-Pan, P3, Softrock, SDR-IQ with Spectravue, etc.). 73, ... Joe, W4TV On 9/10/2012 11:07 AM, Martin Storli - LA8OKA wrote: > 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 ______________________________________________________________ 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
