[Elecraft] Dayton Discovery

[G4ILO]

David Wilburn wrote:
> 
> It has been talked about before, and I was under the impression it was 
> off the table as for as future availability.  Your discussion with 
> Wayne indicates otherwise.
> 
> The connector is used for testing and equipment interaction when they 
> build the unit at the factory.  Others can add more.  I had my hopes 
> up at one point that they were going to make that a keyboard port, and 
> looking at this response from one of the field testers, it looks like 
> it may still be on the 'list'.
> 
When this feature was originally mentioned in discussion on the reflector
about a year ago it was a definite "plus" for buying a K3 for me. However
having subsequently been given the impression that this was not a planned
enhancement I have found an alternative.

If you would like to use data modes without a full sized computer then a
basic Asus Eee PC, Fldigi and a pair of sound card audio cables will do the
job, plus it will support more modes than just PSK31 and RTTY, and display
more than a few characters of text. It would be not much bigger and probably
not cost much more than a custom keyboard which would be required to
interface with the K3's proprietary connector.

Unfortunately due to the policy of Fldigi's author of only supporting the
latest mainstream Linux distributions you will need to replace the Linux
that comes with the Eee with something else because the latest version of
Fldigi won't run on the Eee PC. Alternatively in the Eee PC ham radio forum
at Zerobeat you can find where to download the last version that works on
the standard Eee PC OS.

>From what I have read there are now other small, cheap Linux based laptops
that could easily be used as a simple data modes terminal besides the Asus
Eee PC.

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