The radio cant do everything for you. Why anyone would let a "stupid user"
operate their > 2K radio at a field day site is beyond me. Jim K4JAF
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brett Howard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "wayne burdick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Elecraft Reflector" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, June 29, 2008 12:24 AM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Re: K3 Key-down on power-up [Solution?]
I thought of another feature to help fix the stupid user issue. How
about a lock that doesn't allow a band change. Such as a special way to
use the lock button that doesn't lock one out from QSYing but doesn't
allow them to move off of say 40 meters. We had a death to a band pass
filter cause some one turned their equipment over to a new ham on
another one of the stations and a feature that locks from going to
another band could have prevented that. Also would be useful for when
you don't have the tuner nor an external and your antenna is only good
on one band.
On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 19:51 -0700, wayne burdick wrote:
Dave,
I wanted to run a possible solution past you.
I could prevent the rig from being keyed (by any method) during the
first couple of seconds that it's powered up. Instead, it could detect
this case, and display a repeating message (something like: "KEYLINE IS
ACTIVE") until you either remove the source of the keying or turn power
off.
Thoughts on this?
73,
Wayne
N6KR
Dave Hachadorian, K6LL wrote:
> I've got my K3 set up for cw on Field Day with a laptop usb
> port driving a usb to serial converter. Rig control and cw
> keying are done over the serial cable, using the K3's
> built-in ability to send cw from pin 4(?) of the rs-232
> cable.
>
> Everything works fine, but I got quite a scare when I turned
> on the K3 and it came up keyed-down 120 watts into no
> antenna. It seems that if the laptop is not running the
> logging program, rs-232 pin 4 can very well be in a key-down
> state.
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