Re: [Elecraft] K3 ACC connector and VGA cable
Be cautious on using VGA cables. I bought 2 a few years ago which didnt have pin 9 connected which unfortunately is one of the band signals from the K3, So I made my own with 2 connectors and a lenght of multicore cable I just hit a similar snag this weekend, my cables unlimited PCM-2250 15 pin Y cable adaptors also have no pin 9, which means they are only usable if I dont use band data Dave ww2r Message: 5 Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 10:07:19 -0800 From: Randy Hall Subject: [Elecraft] K3 ACC connector and VGA cable To: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi, I am starting to get the my K3 integrated into my station. I am thinking about building a breakout box to bring several of the pins on the ACC connector out to RCA jacks. I was wondering if I just hack off one end of a standard VGA cable if the cable has enough wires in it to get to all the pins on the ACC connector? Or, get a 15 pin VGA connector and make up my own cable? Comments from the K3 community? Randy K7AGE __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] K3 ACC connector and VGA cable
G'day http://www.winfordeng.com/ For both cables and breakout boards. Regards, Mike VP8NO - Original Message - From: "Dick Dievendorff" To: "Randy Hall" Cc: Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2010 3:45 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 ACC connector and VGA cable > The standard VGA cables may omit or combine key pins. Some people > have > found Y connectors with all 15 pins connected. There is a small > commercial device that has a 15 pin connector attached to a PC > board > with screw connectors for all 15 wires. I'm away from my PC now > but > these are discussed in the archives of this forum. > > Dick, K6KR __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] K3 ACC connector and VGA cable
Below is the email from the Yahoo reflector in October. I bought a Y-adaptor from the first source, and it worked fine for my Top Ten Devices Band Decoder and a PR6. It was $2.40 and was less than $5 including shipping. Jim N7US -Original Message- From: Joe Subich, W4TV [mailto:li...@subich.com] Sent: October 22, 2009 20:37 To: elecraft...@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [Elecraft_K3] Top Ten Devices Band Decoder The "elegant" solutions are the full DB15HD Y cables available from: www.cablewholesale.com p/n 10H1-27708 www.altex.com Philmore 70-568 or one of the breakout boards from: http://www.winfordeng.com/products/cat_brk.php the BRKSD15HDM-C is particularly interesting. The alternative is to make up your own cable to a box with a DB9 or DIN8 for "Band data" and some RCA/3.5 mm jacks for FSK, PTT, ALC and Inhibit. 73, ... Joe, W4TV -Original Message- > Someone posted a link to some Y-cables here a few months back and I > obtained a couple, but I don't recall the vendor at the moment. Philmore 70-568, available from several sources. 73, Lyle KK7P __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] K3 ACC connector and VGA cable
> I am starting to get the my K3 integrated into my station. > > I am thinking about building a breakout box to bring several > of the pins on the ACC connector out to RCA jacks. > > I was wondering if I just hack off one end of a standard VGA > cable if the cable has enough wires in it to get to all the > pins on the ACC connector? > Or, get a 15 pin VGA connector and make up my own cable? > > Comments from the K3 community? The breakout box with RCA Phono jacks is a good approach and used by many. I prefer to use VGA Y-Adapter cables to combine whichever single-function cables I need for a given setup. I either make or buy the single-function cables, e.g., FSK/PTT, KRC2, Top-Ten Decoder, etc. As K6KR noted, many of the VGA Y-Adapters and other VGA cables have missing connections or shorted connections that work fine in the intended VGA applications. So, you have to carefully check the continuity of VGA adapters/cables for the K3 ACC application. I've been through a lot of VGA Y-Adapters and only found one source with all the connections made properly. Ed - W0YK --- Ed Muns Muns Vineyard - www.munsvineyard.com FaceBook - www.facebook.com/munsvineyard __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] K3 ACC connector and VGA cable
> Someone posted a link to some Y-cables here a few months back and I > obtained a couple, but I don't recall the vendor at the moment. Philmore 70-568, available from several sources. 73, Lyle KK7P __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] K3 ACC connector and VGA cable
> I am thinking about building a breakout box to bring several of the pins on > the ACC connector out to RCA jacks. > > I was wondering if I just hack off one end of a standard VGA cable if the > cable has enough wires in it to get to all the pins on the ACC connector? > Or, get a 15 pin VGA connector and make up my own cable? For cable, I use < URL:http://www.winford.com/products/ext15hd.php > For a breakout board, I use < URL:http://www.winford.com/products/brk15hd.php > and I see they now have a smaller one < URL:http://www.winford.com/products/brksd15hd.php > Someone posted a link to some Y-cables here a few months back and I obtained a couple, but I don't recall the vendor at the moment. No connection to Winford, just a satisfied customer, YMMV, etc. 73, Lyle KK7P __ 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
Re: [Elecraft] K3 ACC connector and VGA cable
Using a VGA cable probably won't bring all of the signals out to the end of the pigtail since the VGA standard doesn't use off of them. There are commerical cables using the DB-15 high density connector that bring out all pins, or you can build your own. It's more fun to build your own. Digikey and Mouser both have the 15-pin male connectors, and they'll also have good quality control cables. 73, matt W6NIA K3 #24 On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 10:07:19 -0800, you wrote: >Hi, > >I am starting to get the my K3 integrated into my station. > >I am thinking about building a breakout box to bring several of the pins on >the ACC connector out to RCA jacks. > >I was wondering if I just hack off one end of a standard VGA cable if the >cable has enough wires in it to get to all the pins on the ACC connector? >Or, get a 15 pin VGA connector and make up my own cable? > >Comments from the K3 community? > >Randy >K7AGE >__ >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
Re: [Elecraft] K3 ACC connector and VGA cable
The standard VGA cables may omit or combine key pins. Some people have found Y connectors with all 15 pins connected. There is a small commercial device that has a 15 pin connector attached to a PC board with screw connectors for all 15 wires. I'm away from my PC now but these are discussed in the archives of this forum. Dick, K6KR Sent from my iPhone On Jan 17, 2010, at 10:07 AM, Randy Hall wrote: > Hi, > > I am starting to get the my K3 integrated into my station. > > I am thinking about building a breakout box to bring several of the > pins on > the ACC connector out to RCA jacks. > > I was wondering if I just hack off one end of a standard VGA cable > if the > cable has enough wires in it to get to all the pins on the ACC > connector? > Or, get a 15 pin VGA connector and make up my own cable? > > Comments from the K3 community? > > Randy > K7AGE > __ > 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
[Elecraft] K3 ACC connector and VGA cable
Hi, I am starting to get the my K3 integrated into my station. I am thinking about building a breakout box to bring several of the pins on the ACC connector out to RCA jacks. I was wondering if I just hack off one end of a standard VGA cable if the cable has enough wires in it to get to all the pins on the ACC connector? Or, get a 15 pin VGA connector and make up my own cable? Comments from the K3 community? Randy K7AGE __ 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
