[Elecraft] Thoughts on additional K3 feature

[David Ferrington, M0XDF]

Sorry everyone - I stand corrected, it's not a k/b port - although I swear
there was a mail back in May saying it was - perhaps I mistook, could be,
for is :-)

Avoid "ole in't bottom " - like the plague!


On 28/11/07 17:04, "Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ Elecraft" <eric at elecraft.com> sent:

> 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
> 
> _..._
> 
> 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.
>> 
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