[Elecraft] K3 - should data via the RS232 cable work?

[G4ILO]

Dick Dievendorff wrote:
> 
> I hope to add a more natural data terminal page that doesn't require you
> to
> have a Programmer's Reference manual open when you make data mode QSOs. 
> But
> I'm going to stop well short of competing with MTTY or any of the other
> data-mode programs that decode with a sound card.   I have vacation plans,
> so this work won't happen until early next year.
> 
My program KCommunicate is intended to take advantage of the K3's built in
encoding and decoding. Since it can send CW from the keyboard using KY
commands there is no reason why it could not also send RTTY or PSK using
these commands, though obviously the software would need some changes such
as allowing a larger character set to be sent.

However there is little advantage in transmitting data via serial port
commands if you still need to use the computer sound card to decode it. The
current TT1 implementation of sending raw decoded text back to the serial
port is unusable by software that also wants frequency, mode, S-meter
readings and other information from the radio. Users who have installed the
second receiver option may also want software capable of independently
displaying two separate decoded data streams.

Dave, G4AON, commented that KCommunicate does not seem to work with a K3.
That is hardly surprising, as I have not got a K3 to test it with yet. But
even if I did, I suspect I still will not be able to get this to work until
there is further refinement of the firmware in this area.

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