[Elecraft] K3 PK-232 FSK RTTY Setup

[Ed Gray W0SD]

Rich,

I have read Don AA5AU discussion on this and this is the next thing to 
do now that I have my two K3's wired up for FSK RTTY.  I can do this as 
part of the process in getting ready for the ARRL RTTY Roundup.  I have 
a 24 inch LCD monitor screen so hopefully I can find room. Thanks for 
the excellent suggestion and information.


Richard Ferch wrote:
> Ed Gray said:
> 
>> The PK-232 has a cable from it to a serial COM port port on your 
>> computer which you need to set up in your software, in my case Writelog. 
>> That is all you need between the PK-232 and the computer.  There is 
>> absolutely nothing hooked to the computer sound card.
> 
> Actually, if you want the best of both worlds you can run an audio cable
> between the PK-232 or the radio and the computer's sound card line in jack,
> and use MMTTY as a second decoder. If you have room on your computer
> monitor's screen, you can watch both decoders (PK-232 and MMTTY) running in
> parallel - sometimes one copies when the other doesn't. I haven't done this
> with the K3 yet, but I have used this trick with other radios. You can
> either use a Y-connector at the radio or the PK-232, or if you connect the
> radio's line out to the PK-232's 5-pin connector (J4), you can connect a
> cable between the PK-232's phone jack (J3) and the sound card (the audio
> inputs on J3 and J4 are connected directly together, so in effect there is a
> Y-connector inside the PK-232).
> 
> In addition to giving you two decoders, this also lets you use MMTTY's
> crossed-ellipse X-Y tuning display, which you may prefer to the PK-232's LED
> tuning indicator. You can configure the MMTTY X-Y display to rotate in the
> same direction as the radio's tuning knob, which seems to simplify the
> hand-eye coordination process while tuning in signals.
> 
> 73,
> Rich VE3KI
> 
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