Well maybe not exactly while transmitting unless one needs to make the CFO chicken cluck sound.
Steve Ellington n...@carolina.rr.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Terry Dunlap" <te...@kk6t.com> To: <Elecraft@mailman.qth.net> Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 2:26 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 Mic up down buttons >I must be missing something here. For the life of my I can't figure why > you would want to be changing frequency while transmitting CW (or any > other mode) > > 73 de Terry KK6T > K3# 2965 > > Bill W4ZV wrote: >> One of our Field Testers has done this, but I would not be surprised to >> see >> Elecraft eventually offer something similar as a standard product. Below >> are the FT's comments (sans callsign) since I doubt he wants a lot of >> queries about it. >> >> 73, Bill W4ZV >> >> >> On 2008-12-13, at 13:30 , **** wrote: >> >> >>> This is one for the lowest-priority end of the missing-feature list. >>> I built a box with two pushbuttons wired to the DOWN and UP pins on >>> the >>> front panel MIC connector, to simulate a remote VFO A "knob." It works >>> nicely: tap to step, hold to scan. But, taps while sending CW via KEY >>> mess >>> up the beautiful dots and dashes (dare I say: just like touching almost >>> any control on an Orion II while sending :=). Strangely, holds do not >>> affect the CW at all. >>> >> >> >> I've just interfaced the Griffin PowerMate "multimedia USB control knob" >> with my Mac contest logging program (SkookumLogger). I use it in two >> modes, >> controlling either the RIT/XIT offset or VFOA frequency. In either mode, >> twirling the knob smoothly varies the K3 frequency at a reasonable rate >> for >> tuning around a CW run frequency. There's a PowerMate-related issue that >> I >> can live with: it operates by "pressing" command keys for you; if you >> twirl >> the knob a lot it queues up all those "presses" and there is no way to >> stop >> it from stubbornly playing back the complete queue. >> >> I've also got the PowerMate rigged to clear the offset (copies VFOB to >> VFOA >> when controlling VFOA frequency). And one other gesture does a "Swap", >> which >> is tough to explain in less than a paragraph. >> >> Changing the K3 frequency this way does *not* affect CW. I'm now a Happy >> Ham, no longer waiting for the hoped-for K3 remote control unit :-) >> >> > ______________________________________________________________ > 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
