Re: [Elecraft] Thoughts on additional K3 feature

2007-11-28 Thread David Ferrington, M0XDF
I think Elecraft have a keyboard planned for the future - there is a k/b port on the bottom So maybe typing direct on a k/b connected to the K3 :-) On 28/11/07 16:36, Doug Person [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: One thing I would like to see is a way to send text to the K3 that is then sent as PSK31.

Re: [Elecraft] Thoughts on additional K3 feature

2007-11-28 Thread Doug Person
Too bad they didn't use the same standard mini-din used on virtually all pc keyboards. Doug -- K0DXV K2/100 #5837, K3/100 #77 David Ferrington, M0XDF wrote: I think Elecraft have a keyboard planned for the future - there is a k/b port on the bottom So maybe typing direct on a k/b connected

Re: [Elecraft] Thoughts on additional K3 feature

2007-11-28 Thread Greg - AB7R
Please do NOT attempt to connect a keyboard directly to the K3. Right now that port is ONLY for the boot loader. This port may be available for a keyboard in the future, but not now. - 73, Greg - AB7R Whidbey Island WA NA-065 K3#0009 On Wed Nov 28 11:43 , David

Re: [Elecraft] Thoughts on additional K3 feature

2007-11-28 Thread David Ferrington, M0XDF
That's mini din is a PS2 std and the K3 probably doesn't have a PS2 interface Plus with this way, they could provide other peripherals On 28/11/07 16:56, Doug Person [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: Too bad they didn't use the same standard mini-din used on virtually all pc keyboards. Doug --

Re: [Elecraft] Thoughts on additional K3 feature

2007-11-28 Thread Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ Elecraft
Hi Doug, The connector on the bottom of the K3 front panel is not a keyboard connector. It is a used during manufacture for initial programming of the K3 processor boot code. It could possibly used for general I/O, but nothing is designed at this time. Anything hooked up to this connector

Re: [Elecraft] Thoughts on additional K3 feature

2007-11-28 Thread David Ferrington, M0XDF
Sorry everyone - I stand corrected, it's not a k/b port - although I swear there was a mail back in May saying it was - perhaps I mistook, could be, for is :-) Avoid ole in't bottom - like the plague! On 28/11/07 17:04, Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ Elecraft [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: Hi Doug, The

Re: [Elecraft] Thoughts on additional K3 feature

2007-11-28 Thread Julian G4ILO
On Nov 28, 2007 4:36 PM, Doug Person [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One thing I would like to see is a way to send text to the K3 that is then sent as PSK31. Currently you can do this by sending morse with a key. But, being able to send text directly through the serial port would allow simple

Re: [Elecraft] Thoughts on additional K3 feature

2007-11-28 Thread Doug Person
Eric, Thanks for explaining that. I think being able to send text directly will be a very worthwhile feature. It would be an interesting project then to create a simple keyboard-to-serial controller to allow PSK operation without the need for a pc. Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ Elecraft wrote: Hi

Re: [Elecraft] Thoughts on additional K3 feature

2007-11-28 Thread Julian G4ILO
On Nov 28, 2007 5:04 PM, Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ Elecraft [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We -do- plan to allow users to use the 'KY' serial command to send text to the K3's PSK encoder in a future K3 f/w release. Do you also plan to have a command that would allow software to poll for packets of

Re: [Elecraft] Thoughts on additional K3 feature

2007-11-28 Thread Simon Brown (HB9DRV)
I would want to poll for the data, anything else would be problematic to put it mildly. To be honest I doubt that I'll use the built-in PSK / RTTY engines - I'm more in favour of software such as Digipan etc. Simon Brown, HB9DRV - Original Message - From: Julian G4ILO [EMAIL

Re: [Elecraft] Thoughts on additional K3 feature

2007-11-28 Thread Julian G4ILO
On Nov 28, 2007 5:53 PM, Simon Brown (HB9DRV) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would want to poll for the data, anything else would be problematic to put it mildly. To be honest I doubt that I'll use the built-in PSK / RTTY engines - I'm more in favour of software such as Digipan etc. I've

Re: [Elecraft] Thoughts on additional K3 feature

2007-11-28 Thread Lyle Johnson
... But one that can do digimodes without a sound card would be unique to Elecraft, I think. I could use it with my Acorn A4 laptop or my RISC PC, assuming you write this in BBC BASIC! 73, Lyle KK7P PS - Note that BBC BASIC URLhttp://www.bbcbasic.co.uk/bbcbasic.html is a

Re: [Elecraft] Thoughts on additional K3 feature

2007-11-28 Thread Julian G4ILO
On Nov 28, 2007 9:55 PM, Lyle Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I could use it with my Acorn A4 laptop or my RISC PC, assuming you write this in BBC BASIC! Sorry, I'm a Pascal man. Lazarus is based on Free Pascal. It can create code for a lot of current platforms, the main issue is the UI