[Elecraft] [K3] CW via serial cable question

[Don Nesbitt]

Yes - thanks for jogging my memory Julian - it's been a long time since I
tried it but you are absolutely correct - I could enter the KY commands in
MixW with fixed messages and it worked fine - but - (ah, the proverbial
"but") was limited to "canned" messages.  Never could figure out if there
was a way to insert a variable within the text.  73 -- Don N4HH

<SNIP>

I use MixW and I was not aware that it directly supported K2 KY
keying. The macros do have support for direct entry of CAT commands,
and you can use that facility to send raw KY commands to the K2.
Perhaps that is what you meant. It would allow the facility to be used
to send fixed text, just like keyer memories, but you cannot insert
variables from the log like the other station's call or an incremented
serial number, nor is it usable to send text typed in real time.

Because you are limited by the K2 protocol to how many characters you
can send at a time, and must poll the buffer until it is ready before
you can send more, you can't use this method to send very long texts.

On the other hand, perhaps they have added support in a recent update
and I wasn't aware of it?
-- 
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