Re: [Elecraft] Portable Keyboard for KX3

2012-04-18 Thread Niel Wiegand
John, Have you looked at the terminal program that is part of the utility package available for the KX3 as a download from Elecraft? Practically any Windows PC with a RS232 or USB port can be used as a keyboard for CW, RTTY and PSK31, no sound card required. It uses the KX3 ACC1 port. With

[Elecraft] Portable Keyboard for KX3

2012-04-15 Thread John Lally
Does anyone know of a portable keyboard one can use to key the KX3? This would probably be through the key input on the KX3 so that I could type in CW,RTTY, and PSK31 into the KX3. Preferably, this portable keyboard would be self powered by its own internal battery. Also a smaller sized

Re: [Elecraft] Portable Keyboard for KX3

2012-04-15 Thread Don Wilhelm
John, You would be referring in a keyboard to ASCII conversion. During my early years (1970s timeframe), with homebrew computers, I actually had a keyboard that had ASCII output, but that gave way to the IBM PC keyboard which has been the de-facto standard ever since. So,if you can discover

Re: [Elecraft] Portable Keyboard for KX3

2012-04-15 Thread James kvochick
http://www.icircuits.com/store/prod_misc_main.html Has a PC to ASCII converter Jim WB8AZP Sent from my iPad On Apr 15, 2012, at 8:35 PM, Don Wilhelm w3...@embarqmail.com wrote: John, You would be referring in a keyboard to ASCII conversion. During my early years (1970s timeframe), with

Re: [Elecraft] Portable Keyboard for KX3

2012-04-15 Thread Jay Sissom
This device has an RS232 or TTL (5V) output. I looked in the manual and didn't see the specifications for the serial port on the KX3. I apologize if I missed it, but can someone tell me the pin out of the connector and the interface level (RS232, 5V, 3.3V)? Thanks Jay On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at

Re: [Elecraft] Portable Keyboard for KX3

2012-04-15 Thread Bob W7AVK
A really neat PC Keyboard to CW encoder is the Code Buddy listed on this web page. http://www.qsl.net/k5bcq/Kits/Kits.html Works great and the price is hard to beat. It will not interface with the K3 CW paddle inputs. But maybe setting the K3 to use a straight key would work, haven't

Re: [Elecraft] Portable Keyboard for KX3

2012-04-15 Thread Dick Dievendorff
...@mailman.qth.net [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of James kvochick Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2012 3:41 PM To: d...@w3fpr.com Cc: elecraft@mailman.qth.net; John Lally Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Portable Keyboard for KX3 http://www.icircuits.com/store/prod_misc_main.html Has a PC to ASCII