Ed Gray said: > The PK-232 has a cable from it to a serial COM port port on your > computer which you need to set up in your software, in my case Writelog. > That is all you need between the PK-232 and the computer. There is > absolutely nothing hooked to the computer sound card.
Actually, if you want the best of both worlds you can run an audio cable between the PK-232 or the radio and the computer's sound card line in jack, and use MMTTY as a second decoder. If you have room on your computer monitor's screen, you can watch both decoders (PK-232 and MMTTY) running in parallel - sometimes one copies when the other doesn't. I haven't done this with the K3 yet, but I have used this trick with other radios. You can either use a Y-connector at the radio or the PK-232, or if you connect the radio's line out to the PK-232's 5-pin connector (J4), you can connect a cable between the PK-232's phone jack (J3) and the sound card (the audio inputs on J3 and J4 are connected directly together, so in effect there is a Y-connector inside the PK-232). In addition to giving you two decoders, this also lets you use MMTTY's crossed-ellipse X-Y tuning display, which you may prefer to the PK-232's LED tuning indicator. You can configure the MMTTY X-Y display to rotate in the same direction as the radio's tuning knob, which seems to simplify the hand-eye coordination process while tuning in signals. 73, Rich VE3KI _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
