[Elecraft] Thoughts on additional K3 feature

[Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ Elecraft]

Hi Doug,

The connector on the bottom of the K3 front panel is not a keyboard 
connector. It is a used during manufacture for initial programming of 
the K3 processor boot code.

It could possibly used for general I/O, but nothing is designed at this 
time. Anything hooked up to this connector is speculation at this point. :-)

We -do- plan to allow users to use the 'KY' serial command to send text 
to the K3's PSK encoder in a future K3 f/w release.

73, Eric   WA6HHQ

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Doug Person wrote:
> Too bad they didn't use the same standard mini-din used on virtually 
> all pc keyboards.
> ----
> David Ferrington, M0XDF wrote:
>> I think Elecraft have a keyboard planned for the future - there is a k/b
>> port on the bottom
>> So maybe typing direct on a k/b connected to the K3 :-)
>>
>> On 28/11/07 16:36, "Doug Person" <doug at northroutt.net> sent:
>>
>>> One thing I would like to see is a way to send text to the K3 that is
>>> then sent as PSK31.  Currently you can do this by sending morse with a
>>> key.  But, being able to send text directly through the serial port
>>> would allow simple keyboard operation from a terminal program.
>