Re: [Elecraft] K3 PTT CW
Hi Paul, this is what I discovered and described on http://www.zerobeat.net/smf/index.php?topic=215.0 There are some possibilities that later after more important changes there will be some change in firmware to set KEY OUT as pure PTT out port. (I hope so). For many oparators running special and complex system is RX/TX switching by hitting the Key not so comfortable :-( Now I have ready small switchbox to activate PTT and Key (using K3 as EME main tranceiver on 1296MHz) to avoid unwanted keyng of all the line of relays in transverter(-s) and mast preamplifiers. During digital mode there is PTT via RS232 port running but is better to remove Key at all from the RIG :-) 73! Lexa, ok1dst K3/10 #727 Paul W5DM napsal(a): Is there any setting in the K3. using an external CW keyer and PTT, that can be used to make the key inactive while in the receive mode? As is, while the PTT function at first glance seems to work normally, it is, in my opinion, incomplete in that closing the key while receiving turns on the transmitter. For reasons that are both personal and compelling I will control the transmit/receive function completely by a manual send/receive switch of some kind. I can accomplish what I want by using a double pole switch, one pole for the normal PTT and the other pole in the key line. I am trying to save myself the trouble of installing such a switch--getting lazy in my old age. Any help will be appreciated. 73 Paul W5DM ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net 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
Re: [Elecraft] K3 PTT CW
Hi Paul Can you define pure PTT CW? I assume you mean CW is inactivated until you activate PTT, and the rig stays in TX mode until you release PTT, yet sends a signal only when the paddles are pressed. Is that it? Lets you use a something like a foot switch for total control? Jerry W4UK At 05:05 PM 5/23/2008, Paul W5DM wrote: Thanks to all who replied. In the reply, and the link enclosed, by Lexa, ok1dst, are given reasons why some desire a pure PTT mode for CW. There are also some excellent contest and dx operators who, for their own personal reasons, do not use QSK. I know that ON4UN told me several years ago at Ham-Com in Texas that he did not use QSK. I am in no way trying to tell Elecraft what their priorities for changes should be; but I hope that, if not too much trouble and too dificult to implement, that a pure PTT CW will be made an available option in the K3 for those of us who want it. For now, and not for the first time in my life, it is work around time. 73 Paul W5DM ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net 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
Re: [Elecraft] K3 PTT CW
I'm not sure about the K3 because I don't have mine yet, but all I have to do with my Kenwood TS-850 is turn off the VOX and use the Send/Rec switch instead. I don't do that, but it works. The side tone still works, but it does not transmit. Cookie, K5EWJ --- Paul W5DM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any setting in the K3. using an external CW keyer and PTT, that can be used to make the key inactive while in the receive mode? As is, while the PTT function at first glance seems to work normally, it is, in my opinion, incomplete in that closing the key while receiving turns on the transmitter. For reasons that are both personal and compelling I will control the transmit/receive function completely by a manual send/receive switch of some kind. I can accomplish what I want by using a double pole switch, one pole for the normal PTT and the other pole in the key line. I am trying to save myself the trouble of installing such a switch--getting lazy in my old age. Any help will be appreciated. 73 Paul W5DM -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/K3-PTT-CW-tp17414373p17414373.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net 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 ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net 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
Re: [Elecraft] K3 PTT CW
If you decide to install that switch, just use it to open the key line. Then TX requires closing that switch plus activating the key. Jerry W4UK At 05:58 PM 5/22/2008, Paul W5DM wrote: Is there any setting in the K3. using an external CW keyer and PTT, that can be used to make the key inactive while in the receive mode? As is, while the PTT function at first glance seems to work normally, it is, in my opinion, incomplete in that closing the key while receiving turns on the transmitter. For reasons that are both personal and compelling I will control the transmit/receive function completely by a manual send/receive switch of some kind. I can accomplish what I want by using a double pole switch, one pole for the normal PTT and the other pole in the key line. I am trying to save myself the trouble of installing such a switch--getting lazy in my old age. Any help will be appreciated. 73 Paul W5DM -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/K3-PTT-CW-tp17414373p17414373.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net 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 ___ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net 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
