Re: [Elecraft] K3 External key out

2015-09-07 Thread Vic Rosenthal
Are you sure you have VOX on and are actually going into transmit in CW mode? Vic 4X6GP/K2VCO > On Sep 7, 2015, at 8:22 PM, Gerry Villhauer wrote: > > I connected my K3, external key out to my loop antenna control box to shut of > the power to the amplifier when the K3 transmitter is keyed.

[Elecraft] K3 External key out

2015-09-07 Thread Gerry Villhauer
I connected my K3, external key out to my loop antenna control box to shut of the power to the amplifier when the K3 transmitter is keyed. It works fine in SSB mode but it CW it has no effect. Did I miss a setting somewhere in the menu? Gerry, W0GV

Re: [Elecraft] K3 External Key ...

2011-05-22 Thread Wes Stewart
I was already working for Hughes when they offered a Fortran course. The terminals and printer were in Tucson but the mainframe was in California. Our jobs were run after hours and we had to wait until the next morning for our printout to find the inevitable mistakes. I was between wives so I

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2011-05-22 Thread R. Kevin Stover
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Or walking 500 yards across campus from the engineering building to the admin building where the mainframe was located, to get the printed "output" of your latest attempt at FORTRAN greatness? I really learned to hate the IBM 3270 terminal. On 5/21/2

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2011-05-22 Thread R. Kevin Stover
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've still got mine, along with the 16K memory module. > Tactile feedback can be important. Imagine typing on a computer with a > membrane (chiclet style) keyboard -- like the old Sinclair 1000. It could be > done but not sure if I'd want to do it. >

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2011-05-21 Thread Kevin Rock
Or walking across campus with a box of cards when all of a sudden you slip on the ice and they blow into a snowbank. I was glad my mother was nowhere around because I used my father's DI language instruction fluently :) Luckily it was so cold the snow was dry so I could blow most of them

Re: [Elecraft] K3 External Key ...

2011-05-21 Thread Tony Estep
On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote: > ...just to boot it far enough to read the paper tape and then the paper > tape would jam... Ah yes! Or how about getting your cards all stacked and ready to try a compile only to drop the whole damn deck and have half of them slide und

Re: [Elecraft] K3 External Key ...

2011-05-21 Thread Ron D'Eau Claire
Many times on an SEL810A - took 15 minutes of button pounding just to boot it far enough to read the paper tape and then the paper tape would jam half way through its read. Ah... those were the days that would make a roomful of grown men cry. Ron AC7AC -Original Message- How many rememb

Re: [Elecraft] K3 External Key ...

2011-05-21 Thread Kevin Rock
How many remember inputing a program with the front panel switches on your wirewrapped computers? I am so happy that tape came along to end that tedious procedure. Kevin. KD5ONS On Sat, 21 May 2011 19:38:33 -0700, Andrew Moore wrote: > On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 8:42 PM, juergen wrot

Re: [Elecraft] K3 External Key ...

2011-05-21 Thread Andrew Moore
On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 8:42 PM, juergen wrote: > I dont know why manufacturers just dont install the electronics for a touch > paddle. > Tactile feedback can be important. Imagine typing on a computer with a membrane (chiclet style) keyboard -- like the old Sinclair 1000. It could be done but

Re: [Elecraft] K3 External Key ...

2011-05-21 Thread Ron D'Eau Claire
AC -Original Message- From: elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of juergen Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2011 5:42 PM To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 External Key ... Hi I dont know why manufacturers just dont install the electronic

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2011-05-21 Thread Bill W4ZV
juergen piezo wrote: > > A touch paddle is the most precise way of sending CW. No mechanical > paddles that I have come across yet can match a touch key for precision > fast CW. > Not true. Check out what competitors at the High Speed Telegraphy Championships use for sending. All paddles are

Re: [Elecraft] K3 External Key ...

2011-05-21 Thread Joe Subich, W4TV
f the KX3 had a touch paddle option, it > would have been much simpler option in my view. > 73 > John > > --- On Sat, 5/21/11, iain macdonnell - N6ML wrote: > >> From: iain macdonnell - N6ML >> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 External Key ... >> To: "Andy - GM

Re: [Elecraft] K3 External Key ...

2011-05-21 Thread juergen
wrote: > From: iain macdonnell - N6ML > Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 External Key ... > To: "Andy - GM0NWI" > Cc: elecraft@mailman.qth.net > Date: Saturday, May 21, 2011, 5:04 PM > I remember Wayne taking a lot of > interest in the Porta Paddle[1] which > was on

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2011-05-21 Thread iain macdonnell - N6ML
I remember Wayne taking a lot of interest in the Porta Paddle[1] which was on sale at Pacificon last year. Now I know what we was thinking ;) ~iain / N6ML [1] http://www.americanmorse.com/portapaddle.htm On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Andy - GM0NWI wrote: > Guy's.. > > Anyone got any i

[Elecraft] K3 External Key ...

2011-05-21 Thread Andy - GM0NWI
Guy's.. Anyone got any inside information on wether we will be able to buy the small "Iambic Key" we have seen on the recent K3 videos - Seperatley from the radio itself when the launch is finally underway ? Not sure if that particular key would work with other rigs etc, but if it could be adapte