Matt, Did you use a separate USB/serial cable? Perhaps, a third party will come with one USB/serial cable that has extra wires, possibly with some small circuits like yours, that do the radio connection, CW and PTT simultaneously Rumlog does software CW with KX3 but I don't know how well.
Did you run KX3 standalone in the Oceania contest? I worked in Oceania CW last year as VK2/NO9E. Worked some 180 QSOs in 2-3 hrs using IC7000+ long wires. Got up last Sunday morning (6 AM GMT) and worked 15 stations with K3. Amp needed. 73, Ignacy On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Matt Maguire <[email protected]> wrote: On 18/10/2012, at 1:06 AM, Ignacy <[email protected]> wrote: > I own both K3 and KX3. > > K3 is mature radio. Works very well. But the design is a few years old. > > KX3 is new radio with new design. > ... > The contest programs > cannot easily send CW without extra hardware (with exceptions). I actually used N1MM with the KX3 in the Oceania DX CW contest last weekend (and in the Oceania DX SSB contest the weekend before). It was the first time I had used a contesting program to generate CW, and I discovered that N1MM is a powerful program. To get it to work with the KX3, all that was required was a trivial circuit with just a single transistor and single resistor, which is pretty easy. In the end I'll probably get a Winkeyer or similar, but the simple transistor interface was a quick and easy way to get on the air and give automated CW contesting a go. 73, Matt VK2ACL -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/Elecraft-newbie-considering-K3-vs-KX3-tp7564208p7564245.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
