Re: [Elecraft] How do I generate a Key Down to tune an external 6m amp?
If I am not mistaken I think the proper way of tuning the amp is with a pulser or sending a string of dits at say 60wpm not a solid tone. Randy On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 11:44 PM, Bob KD7YZ kd...@denstarfarm.us wrote: Willis 'Cookie' said: The easy way is to hold the dash on the bug. unless I am missing something in Setup, I do not see how to tell the K3 that I want manual dashes and string-dots. There is no setup for the keyer. So obviously if I short out the dash side, of the Vibroplex paddle, I get dashes. Many of them. And that is my question. How do I get a solid key-down, where the PTT IS activated, and RF flows? Seems right simple ,but my two choices here do not work. Use the keyer, push the PTT foot-switch, and I get a nice string of dots or dashes, as all of us expect. Push/HOLD the XMIT button and the PTT output of the K3 seems to not engage. Where, on the K3, would one pug in a regular old straight-key, and expect it to work as a regular old straight-key? The answer to that would solve my Sequencer problem for tuning w/o frying anything in the LNA chain. __ 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 -- Randy Lake N1KWF 73 Gunn Rd. Keene,NH __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] How do I generate a Key Down to tune an external 6m amp?
ARE YOU SERIOUS -Original Message- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Randy Lake Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2014 6:56 AM To: Bob KD7YZ Cc: K3 List Subject: Re: [Elecraft] How do I generate a Key Down to tune an external 6m amp? If I am not mistaken I think the proper way of tuning the amp is with a pulser or sending a string of dits at say 60wpm not a solid tone. Randy __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] How do I generate a Key Down to tune an external 6m amp?
Randy, you are indeed mistaken!! 73 K0PP On Jan 18, 2014 4:56 AM, Randy Lake randyn1...@gmail.com wrote: If I am not mistaken I think the proper way of tuning the amp is with a pulser or sending a string of dits at say 60wpm not a solid tone. Randy On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 11:44 PM, Bob KD7YZ kd...@denstarfarm.us wrote: Willis 'Cookie' said: The easy way is to hold the dash on the bug. unless I am missing something in Setup, I do not see how to tell the K3 that I want manual dashes and string-dots. There is no setup for the keyer. So obviously if I short out the dash side, of the Vibroplex paddle, I get dashes. Many of them. And that is my question. How do I get a solid key-down, where the PTT IS activated, and RF flows? Seems right simple ,but my two choices here do not work. Use the keyer, push the PTT foot-switch, and I get a nice string of dots or dashes, as all of us expect. Push/HOLD the XMIT button and the PTT output of the K3 seems to not engage. Where, on the K3, would one pug in a regular old straight-key, and expect it to work as a regular old straight-key? The answer to that would solve my Sequencer problem for tuning w/o frying anything in the LNA chain. __ 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 -- Randy Lake N1KWF 73 Gunn Rd. Keene,NH __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] How do I generate a Key Down to tune an external 6m amp?
On 1/17/2014 23:53, Dick Dievendorff wrote: My K3 back panel has two 1/4 inch key jacks, one for a paddle, one for a straight key. I plug a paddle into one, and the keying line from my computer into the other. I have a vibroplex bug and plan to put a 1/4 inch mono Y adapter plug into the straight key socket. OK, this was helpful Dick. And Merv K9FD reminding me to RTFM. But I believe what he said was re-re-read the page 17 and rear-apron drawings/words .. as that page WAS op and does have a ot of dirty fingerprints of mine. By re-arraigning the two outputs-to-PTT, that I see on the K3, as-well-as removing a superfluous Key-Out I used to go down to the KAT500, I was able to insert my straight key in KEY, use it and have the correct K3 PTT-out places actually ALL come on and ALL key the sequencer chain. It was NOT the case before. Before, a foot switch press, a cw-key press and a command to transmit from the JT65 soundcard input did not all have the same effect on allowing the sequencer to make the decision. thanks again. __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] How do I generate a Key Down to tune an external 6m amp?
Yes Randy is correct. The Tube dealers LOVE people who tune up with a Brick on the Key. Kills your Tubes much faster. Plus you get a much more accurate tuneup by sending dots than you do with a solid tone. It duplicates your actual transmissions using dots rather than solid tone. Its really easy to do guys. Just set your coffee cup against the paddles making dots and turn the knobs on your amp. John k9uwa If I am not mistaken I think the proper way of tuning the amp is with a pulser or sending a string of dits at say 60wpm not a solid tone. Randy John Goller, K9UWA Jean Goller, N9PXF Antique Radio Restorations k9...@arrl.net Visit our Web Site at: http://www.JohnJeanAntiqueRadio.com 4836 Ranch Road Leo, IN 46765 USA 1-260-637-6426 --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] How do I generate a Key Down to tune an external 6m amp?
John --- I suggest you send this 'quality' information quickly to RF Concepts and tell them they better take that brick off of the key to their amps that they demo at hamfest. This thread ranks right up there with 'where do you plug a straight key into a K3?'. W4BQF -Original Message- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of John K9UWA Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2014 8:23 AM To: K3 List Subject: Re: [Elecraft] How do I generate a Key Down to tune an external 6m amp? Yes Randy is correct. The Tube dealers LOVE people who tune up with a Brick on the Key. Kills your Tubes much faster. Plus you get a much more accurate tuneup by sending dots than you do with a solid tone. It duplicates your actual transmissions using dots rather than solid tone. Its really easy to do guys. Just set your coffee cup against the paddles making dots and turn the knobs on your amp. John k9uwa If I am not mistaken I think the proper way of tuning the amp is with a pulser or sending a string of dits at say 60wpm not a solid tone. Randy John Goller, K9UWA Jean Goller, N9PXF Antique Radio Restorations k9...@arrl.net Visit our Web Site at: http://www.JohnJeanAntiqueRadio.com 4836 Ranch Road Leo, IN 46765 USA 1-260-637-6426 __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] How do I generate a Key Down to tune an external 6m amp?
What the man said was that he was going to plug in a bug. A bug AKA semi-automatic key does not make a string of dahs, just automatic dots. The dah position of the finger piece makes dashes manually like a straight key except that you push it side ways instead of down. A proficient operator can change from using the dot motion to the right and the dah motion to the left to using the dah paddle as a straight key without you noticing. This is a great way to QRS to a slow speed for a new operator without changing keys. If you are using paddles and the internal keyer, you plug it in to the paddle jack. The K3 has two jacks instead of the one jack and a switch to turn the keyer on and off. That is what you are missing. Willis 'Cookie' Cooke, TDXS DX Chairman K5EWJ Trustee N5BPS, USS Cavalla, USS Stewart From: Bob KD7YZ kd...@denstarfarm.us To: K3 List elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 10:44 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] How do I generate a Key Down to tune an external 6m amp? Willis 'Cookie' said: The easy way is to hold the dash on the bug. unless I am missing something in Setup, I do not see how to tell the K3 that I want manual dashes and string-dots. There is no setup for the keyer. So obviously if I short out the dash side, of the Vibroplex paddle, I get dashes. Many of them. And that is my question. How do I get a solid key-down, where the PTT IS activated, and RF flows? Seems right simple ,but my two choices here do not work. Use the keyer, push the PTT foot-switch, and I get a nice string of dots or dashes, as all of us expect. Push/HOLD the XMIT button and the PTT output of the K3 seems to not engage. Where, on the K3, would one pug in a regular old straight-key, and expect it to work as a regular old straight-key? The answer to that would solve my Sequencer problem for tuning w/o frying anything in the LNA chain. __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] How do I generate a Key Down to tune an external 6m amp?
This seems like a kluge to reduce average power. It would work if you are manually tuning a tube radio with analog meters, where the meters would integrate the pulsed signal. Sort of. It is crazy for digital metering, SWR metering, or an autotuner. In those cases, the instruments are trying to get a measurement with about 10 milliseconds of carrier (one dit at 60 wpm, if I got the math right). Reducing drive power for tuning is a lot better idea, and works for all situations. With the K3 (or KX3), you can use the front-panel TUNE function and even set reduced drive with the TUNE Power Level option. wunder K6WRU On Jan 18, 2014, at 5:23 AM, John K9UWA j...@johnjeanantiqueradio.com wrote: Yes Randy is correct. The Tube dealers LOVE people who tune up with a Brick on the Key. Kills your Tubes much faster. Plus you get a much more accurate tuneup by sending dots than you do with a solid tone. It duplicates your actual transmissions using dots rather than solid tone. Its really easy to do guys. Just set your coffee cup against the paddles making dots and turn the knobs on your amp. John k9uwa If I am not mistaken I think the proper way of tuning the amp is with a pulser or sending a string of dits at say 60wpm not a solid tone. Randy John Goller, K9UWA Jean Goller, N9PXF Antique Radio Restorations k9...@arrl.net Visit our Web Site at: http://www.JohnJeanAntiqueRadio.com 4836 Ranch Road Leo, IN 46765 USA 1-260-637-6426 --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com __ 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 -- Walter Underwood wun...@wunderwood.org __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] How do I generate a Key Down to tune an external 6m amp?
Willis 'Cookie' said: The easy way is to hold the dash on the bug. unless I am missing something in Setup, I do not see how to tell the K3 that I want manual dashes and string-dots. There is no setup for the keyer. So obviously if I short out the dash side, of the Vibroplex paddle, I get dashes. Many of them. And that is my question. How do I get a solid key-down, where the PTT IS activated, and RF flows? Seems right simple ,but my two choices here do not work. Use the keyer, push the PTT foot-switch, and I get a nice string of dots or dashes, as all of us expect. Push/HOLD the XMIT button and the PTT output of the K3 seems to not engage. Where, on the K3, would one pug in a regular old straight-key, and expect it to work as a regular old straight-key? The answer to that would solve my Sequencer problem for tuning w/o frying anything in the LNA chain. __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] How do I generate a Key Down to tune an external 6m amp?
Where, on the K3, would one pug in a regular old straight-key, and expect it to work as a regular old straight-key? The answer to that would solve my Sequencer problem for tuning w/o frying anything in the LNA chain. ___ How about trying the KEY jack on the rear of the K3. its for bugs, straight keys or external keyers. I use a bug with it no problem.. RTFM may be worth a try, Merv K9FD/KH6 __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] How do I generate a Key Down to tune an external 6m amp?
I'm missing something. My K3 back panel has two 1/4 inch key jacks, one for a paddle, one for a straight key. I plug a paddle into one, and the keying line from my computer into the other. I have a vibroplex bug and plan to put a 1/4 inch mono Y adapter plug into the straight key socket. Then I can press the dash side of the bug. What I do now for key down is press the TUNE button on the front of the radio. 73 de Dick, K6KR On Jan 17, 2014, at 20:44, Bob KD7YZ kd...@denstarfarm.us wrote: Willis 'Cookie' said: The easy way is to hold the dash on the bug. unless I am missing something in Setup, I do not see how to tell the K3 that I want manual dashes and string-dots. There is no setup for the keyer. So obviously if I short out the dash side, of the Vibroplex paddle, I get dashes. Many of them. And that is my question. How do I get a solid key-down, where the PTT IS activated, and RF flows? Seems right simple ,but my two choices here do not work. Use the keyer, push the PTT foot-switch, and I get a nice string of dots or dashes, as all of us expect. Push/HOLD the XMIT button and the PTT output of the K3 seems to not engage. Where, on the K3, would one pug in a regular old straight-key, and expect it to work as a regular old straight-key? The answer to that would solve my Sequencer problem for tuning w/o frying anything in the LNA chain. __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] How do I generate a Key Down to tune an external 6m amp?
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Re: [Elecraft] How do I generate a Key Down to tune an external 6m amp?
The text of my email didn't make it, so I'm sending this as plain text. 73, Jim N7US Original Message My Winkeyer keyer can easily generate a key-down. In addition, I have a macro in Commander, the rig control module of DXLab, my logging program, that is the same as pressing the tune button, though I have it set the power to 15W and then revert to full power automatically. I got the idea for that from the K3 Utility program's help file, I think, as it was a sample macro that can be programmed for PF1 or PF2. 73, Jim N7US Original Message I'm missing something. My K3 back panel has two 1/4 inch key jacks, one for a paddle, one for a straight key. I plug a paddle into one, and the keying line from my computer into the other. I have a vibroplex bug and plan to put a 1/4 inch mono Y adapter plug into the straight key socket. Then I can press the dash side of the bug. What I do now for key down is press the TUNE button on the front of the radio. 73 de Dick, K6KR __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] How do I generate a Key Down to tune an external 6m amp?
You might try the 1/4 inch jack on the back labeled KEY. I dunno but it might work. ...bill nr4c Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE DROID Bob KD7YZ kd...@denstarfarm.us wrote: Willis 'Cookie' said: The easy way is to hold the dash on the bug. unless I am missing something in Setup, I do not see how to tell the K3 that I want manual dashes and string-dots. There is no setup for the keyer. So obviously if I short out the dash side, of the Vibroplex paddle, I get dashes. Many of them. And that is my question. How do I get a solid key-down, where the PTT IS activated, and RF flows? Seems right simple ,but my two choices here do not work. Use the keyer, push the PTT foot-switch, and I get a nice string of dots or dashes, as all of us expect. Push/HOLD the XMIT button and the PTT output of the K3 seems to not engage. Where, on the K3, would one pug in a regular old straight-key, and expect it to work as a regular old straight-key? The answer to that would solve my Sequencer problem for tuning w/o frying anything in the LNA chain. __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] How do I generate a Key Down to tune an external 6m amp?
I use a Data Mode and the transmit button to do the same. 73, Fred/N0AZZ K3 Ser # 6730--KX3 # 5210--K2/100 # 6470-KAT100 P3/SVGA--KAT500--W2 Amps Elecraft KPA500 HF/6m--Alpha's 9500 HF--87A HF--Mirage B-5030-G 300+w--(2) B-5016-G's 165w 2m -Original Message- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of WILLIS COOKE Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2014 11:21 PM To: Bob KD7YZ; K3 List Subject: Re: [Elecraft] How do I generate a Key Down to tune an external 6m amp? The easy way is to hold the dash on the bug. If you want to use a straight key just wire it across the terminals on the bug. You don't need but one key input. The way the old telegraphers used a bug was to insert the flat connector between the base and the copper/brass strip that connects to the contact on the straight key and the straight key was permanently bolted to the desk and wired to the telegraph line. Willis 'Cookie' Cooke, TDXS DX Chairman K5EWJ Trustee N5BPS, USS Cavalla, USS Stewart From: Bob KD7YZ kd...@denstarfarm.us To: K3 List elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2014 8:13 PM Subject: [Elecraft] How do I generate a Key Down to tune an external 6m amp? My Old viproplex Bug does the cw for me and there seems to not be an available jack for an old straight key. I have configured some settings in order to keep me form applying power before a PTT action closes a sequencer. Thus I seem to have made it so that pressing Xmit or hold-xmit/Tune will NOT issue a PTT action however will send out RF. This does not close PTT anywhere so the Sequencer does bot close the relay on the PA and I can't rune it up. I can push the foot-switch and the relays all close. However, there is no steady RF. Just what I can make in dots or dashes Is there a way to get key-down WITH a closed PTT so external 6m PA comes on? -- Bob KD7YZ http://www.qrz.com/db/KD7YZ www.denstarfarm.us/LGD __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] How do I generate a Key Down to tune an external 6m amp?
Either that (works on FM, too) or simply press the TUNE button (not ATU TUNE), it's there exactly for that, putting out a steady carrier, no matter which mode. ;-) Besides this the K3 (assuming you are talking about that as no mention of the radio) well has a separate input for a straight key that could be used, too. 73, Olli - DH8BQA Am 16.01.2014 09:13, schrieb Fred Smith: I use a Data Mode and the transmit button to do the same. 73, Fred/N0AZZ K3 Ser # 6730--KX3 # 5210--K2/100 # 6470-KAT100 P3/SVGA--KAT500--W2 Amps Elecraft KPA500 HF/6m--Alpha's 9500 HF--87A HF--Mirage B-5030-G 300+w--(2) B-5016-G's 165w 2m -Original Message- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of WILLIS COOKE Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2014 11:21 PM To: Bob KD7YZ; K3 List Subject: Re: [Elecraft] How do I generate a Key Down to tune an external 6m amp? The easy way is to hold the dash on the bug. If you want to use a straight key just wire it across the terminals on the bug. You don't need but one key input. The way the old telegraphers used a bug was to insert the flat connector between the base and the copper/brass strip that connects to the contact on the straight key and the straight key was permanently bolted to the desk and wired to the telegraph line. Willis 'Cookie' Cooke, TDXS DX Chairman K5EWJ Trustee N5BPS, USS Cavalla, USS Stewart From: Bob KD7YZ kd...@denstarfarm.us To: K3 List elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2014 8:13 PM Subject: [Elecraft] How do I generate a Key Down to tune an external 6m amp? My Old viproplex Bug does the cw for me and there seems to not be an available jack for an old straight key. I have configured some settings in order to keep me form applying power before a PTT action closes a sequencer. Thus I seem to have made it so that pressing Xmit or hold-xmit/Tune will NOT issue a PTT action however will send out RF. This does not close PTT anywhere so the Sequencer does bot close the relay on the PA and I can't rune it up. I can push the foot-switch and the relays all close. However, there is no steady RF. Just what I can make in dots or dashes Is there a way to get key-down WITH a closed PTT so external 6m PA comes on? __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] How do I generate a Key Down to tune an external 6m amp?
Bob, Something I made quite a while ago, and you may consider making, is a simple, small utility box to sit next to your radio (K3 or KX3). Mine is simply a plastic Radio Shack project box. On the back I have 1/4 jacks to plug in several different paddles and straight keys. There are two jacks there for output: one that runs to the Paddle jack in the back of my K3, and another (I call it Key Out) that runs to the Key jack on the back of the K3. A third jack on the back of the little box runs to the PTT jack on the K3. On the top of the box I've mounted several switches. One is a toggle switch that closes the contacts on the PTT jack in the back. Another is a momentary pushbutton switch that does the same thing. And a third momentary button is wired in parallel to the Key Out jack on the back of the box. This combination of jacks and switches allows me to plug in several different paddles and straight keys, and permits the engaging either PTT (like when I'm on SSB with my Yamaha CM-500 headset) or simulating a key down with a straight key. All those functions can be accomplished via front panel switches on the K3, but w/o having to reach over/up to the radio to do so. Jim / W6JHB From: Bob KD7YZ kd...@denstarfarm.us To: K3 List elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2014 8:13 PM Subject: [Elecraft] How do I generate a Key Down to tune an external 6m amp? My Old viproplex Bug does the cw for me and there seems to not be an available jack for an old straight key. I have configured some settings in order to keep me form applying power before a PTT action closes a sequencer. Thus I seem to have made it so that pressing Xmit or hold-xmit/Tune will NOT issue a PTT action however will send out RF. This does not close PTT anywhere so the Sequencer does bot close the relay on the PA and I can't rune it up. I can push the foot-switch and the relays all close. However, there is no steady RF. Just what I can make in dots or dashes Is there a way to get key-down WITH a closed PTT so external 6m PA comes on? __ 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] How do I generate a Key Down to tune an external 6m amp?
My Old viproplex Bug does the cw for me and there seems to not be an available jack for an old straight key. I have configured some settings in order to keep me form applying power before a PTT action closes a sequencer. Thus I seem to have made it so that pressing Xmit or hold-xmit/Tune will NOT issue a PTT action however will send out RF. This does not close PTT anywhere so the Sequencer does bot close the relay on the PA and I can't rune it up. I can push the foot-switch and the relays all close. However, there is no steady RF. Just what I can make in dots or dashes Is there a way to get key-down WITH a closed PTT so external 6m PA comes on? -- Bob KD7YZ http://www.qrz.com/db/KD7YZ www.denstarfarm.us/LGD __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] How do I generate a Key Down to tune an external 6m amp?
The easy way is to hold the dash on the bug. If you want to use a straight key just wire it across the terminals on the bug. You don't need but one key input. The way the old telegraphers used a bug was to insert the flat connector between the base and the copper/brass strip that connects to the contact on the straight key and the straight key was permanently bolted to the desk and wired to the telegraph line. Willis 'Cookie' Cooke, TDXS DX Chairman K5EWJ Trustee N5BPS, USS Cavalla, USS Stewart From: Bob KD7YZ kd...@denstarfarm.us To: K3 List elecraft@mailman.qth.net Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2014 8:13 PM Subject: [Elecraft] How do I generate a Key Down to tune an external 6m amp? My Old viproplex Bug does the cw for me and there seems to not be an available jack for an old straight key. I have configured some settings in order to keep me form applying power before a PTT action closes a sequencer. Thus I seem to have made it so that pressing Xmit or hold-xmit/Tune will NOT issue a PTT action however will send out RF. This does not close PTT anywhere so the Sequencer does bot close the relay on the PA and I can't rune it up. I can push the foot-switch and the relays all close. However, there is no steady RF. Just what I can make in dots or dashes Is there a way to get key-down WITH a closed PTT so external 6m PA comes on? -- Bob KD7YZ http://www.qrz.com/db/KD7YZ www.denstarfarm.us/LGD __ 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
