[Elecraft] Thoughts on additional K3 feature

[Doug Person]

Eric,
Thanks for explaining that. I think being able to send text directly 
will be a very worthwhile feature.  It would be an interesting project 
then to create a simple keyboard-to-serial controller to allow PSK 
operation without the need for a pc.

Eric Swartz - WA6HHQ Elecraft wrote:
> 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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