Gary there are inline BlueTooth products that will work with your QC15. They are a bit pricie and hard to find. I know Sony made one. Be wary of the cell phone versions. There are not stereo. More comments below:
-----Original Message----- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Gary Smith Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2012 9:51 PM To: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 USB request Fred, Ah. What you say makes sense. I'm familiar with the Northbridge & Southbridge chips but I don't know the limitations of hardware & software with the K3. The North and South chips are intended for another purpose and totally impractical for use with the K3. I think TI and Atmel make single chip USB solutions that might work. The question then becomes how do you communicate with the USB chip and my guess would be I2C (yet another bus). I had high hopes that Yaesu was on track with their motorcycle radios but they turned out a miserable product. Someday somebody will figure it out. 73 Fred, AE6QL It really is nice to have no wire to the headphones and I use this setup whenever I use google to make free phone calls (Better acoustics on both end than my cell phone does) If I get up to do something 10' away I just leave the headphones on & forget about them. The bose QC-15 are much more comfortable and the audio with the noise cancelling is impressive, I can't even hear the blower in my amp with them on. Still, they are tethered. Maybe I need to put some thought into how to run the K3 audio/mic functions through the computer and use that to hear the K3 with these wireless mics. 73, Gary KA1J > Gary I can't speak for Elecraft but I really doubt you will ever see a > USB port of the kind you want. Take a look at the third letter in USB. > It stands for 'Bus'. In the PC there is a pretty good sized chip > called the 'South Bridge' chip that de-multiplexes the bus. Sure you > can do the job with other chips but it's not a trivial task. Then > think of the software. Every USB device needs a driver so you would > need to load a driver for your earphones. There is no hard disk so > where are you going to store your drivers? In the end it becomes a > shovel with rope handle. 73 Fred, AE6QL > > -----Original Message----- > From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net > [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Gary Smith > Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2012 4:15 PM To: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 USB request > > I don't know why my text was stripped but here it is again... > ------------------- > I would love for there to be a USB > connection for the K3 without the serial to USB adapter. > > Although I far prefer my Bose Q-15 > headphones, I've bought a pair of Logitech wireless headphones for use > with my computer and they come with a boom mike. Yes, the Bose are > infinitely better but the mic is this Logitech is excellent and they > are stereo. They work great with the computer and being wireless, they > would be ideal with the K3. There's a tiny dongle transmitter/receiver > the headphones pair with which plugs into a usb port but alas, the > only port for the K3 is the antiquated RS-232 port and mine is > dedicated to connecting the K3 to my computer for my logging program > via the serial>USB adapter. > > Any chance for some USB ports on the K3? > > Gary > KA1J > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > 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:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net 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:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
