Re: [Elecraft] K4 on Digital Modes

2020-06-29 Thread Bill Frantz
RUMlogNG, a Mac logging program will allow a kind of conversional mode in its contest form. You can click to send and type whatever you want. It does handle macros nicely, which is needed for contesting. I suspect it breaks down long messages into shorter commands. I use if frequently for CW

Re: [Elecraft] K4 on Digital Modes

2020-06-28 Thread Joe DeVincentis
I am aware of the KY command, but it is limited to 24 characters per command. And as far as I can tell no system supports it in a conversational mode (e.g. fldigi, mmtty, etc) in the same way an external modem is supported. Joe, KO8V > On Jun 28, 2020, at 20:21, Bill Frantz wrote: > > The

Re: [Elecraft] K4 on Digital Modes

2020-06-28 Thread Bill Frantz
The K3 will accept a command through the CAT interface to send CW/RTTY/PSK. The K4 should as well. 73 Bill AE6JV On 6/28/20 at 12:49 PM, j...@ko8v.net (Joe DeVincentis) wrote: What I was wondering is if the K4 will be able to accept an ASCII string and do the FSK keying (ala a TinyFSK

Re: [Elecraft] K4 on Digital Modes

2020-06-28 Thread Joe DeVincentis
Reflector Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K4 on Digital Modes On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 8:14 AM Gus Holcomb wrote: > With the K4D, for instance, what interfaces are presented on the > computer and how many of them are there? To review, on a K3S or K3+KIO3B with USB connector, you get one virtual

Re: [Elecraft] K4 on Digital Modes

2020-06-27 Thread Bob Wilson, N6TV
On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 8:14 AM Gus Holcomb wrote: > With the K4D, for instance, what interfaces are presented on the computer > and how many of them are there? To review, on a K3S or K3+KIO3B with USB connector, you get one virtual serial port and one USB Sound Card (USB AUDIO CODEC).

[Elecraft] K4 on Digital Modes

2020-06-27 Thread Gus Holcomb
Hello everyone, As it gets closer to being able to actually have a K4, I was hoping someone would know how the radio will interact with a computer. I’m only personally familiar with using my kx3 + kxpa100 with a single audio interface and usb control cable on the computer. I read the