> I am starting to get the my K3 integrated into my station. > > I am thinking about building a breakout box to bring several > of the pins on the ACC connector out to RCA jacks. > > I was wondering if I just hack off one end of a standard VGA > cable if the cable has enough wires in it to get to all the > pins on the ACC connector? > Or, get a 15 pin VGA connector and make up my own cable? > > Comments from the K3 community?
The breakout box with RCA Phono jacks is a good approach and used by many. I prefer to use VGA Y-Adapter cables to combine whichever single-function cables I need for a given setup. I either make or buy the single-function cables, e.g., FSK/PTT, KRC2, Top-Ten Decoder, etc. As K6KR noted, many of the VGA Y-Adapters and other VGA cables have missing connections or shorted connections that work fine in the intended VGA applications. So, you have to carefully check the continuity of VGA adapters/cables for the K3 ACC application. I've been through a lot of VGA Y-Adapters and only found one source with all the connections made properly. Ed - W0YK ----------------------------------------------- Ed Muns Muns Vineyard - www.munsvineyard.com FaceBook - www.facebook.com/munsvineyard ______________________________________________________________ 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
