Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft KX3 Owner's Manual nowavailable(*preliminary*)

2012-03-06 Thread Pete Smith N4ZR
Not just RS-232 either. A few years ago I had two band decoders, and they would work fine on one LPT port but not on the other. Turned out the questionable port was only delivering 3.3 volts as logic 1, not quite enough for the band decoder. 73, Pete N4ZR The World Contest Station Database,

Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft KX3 Owner's Manual nowavailable(*preliminary*)

2012-03-05 Thread Oliver Dröse
The advantage is that I could possibly pull out the RTS line from my one RS232 cable to the computer, and simply add it to the amplifier PTT plug in ACC2. I would not have to build a transistor switch to directly trigger the PTT line, which would have to be broken out from the custom

Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft KX3 Owner's Manual nowavailable(*preliminary*)

2012-03-05 Thread Wayne Burdick
We will have voltage/current limiting on this pin, but I was thinking TTL level RTS. We'll be putting a spec on the port pins. Wayne N6KR On Mar 5, 2012, at 12:58 PM, Oliver Dröse wrote: The advantage is that I could possibly pull out the RTS line from my one RS232 cable to the

Re: [Elecraft] Elecraft KX3 Owner's Manual nowavailable(*preliminary*)

2012-03-05 Thread Jim Brown
On 3/5/2012 12:58 PM, Oliver Dröse wrote: you should*NOT* apply RTS directly to the GPIO pin! RS-232 levels go up into the ±20 volts region per specs Not in recent recorded history! So-called RS-232 interfaces started getting cheapened many years ago (before they went away and were replaced