[Elecraft] K3 PTT CW

[WILLIS COOKE]

I'm not sure about the K3 because I don't have mine
yet, but all I have to do with my Kenwood TS-850 is
turn off the VOX and use the Send/Rec switch instead. 
I don't do that, but it works.  The side tone still
works, but it does not transmit.

Cookie, K5EWJ

--- Paul W5DM <paab at valornet.com> wrote:

> 
> Is there any setting in the K3. using an external CW
> keyer and PTT,   that
> can be used to make the key inactive while in the
> receive mode?  As is,
> while the PTT function at first glance seems to work
> normally, it is, in my
> opinion, incomplete in that closing the key while
> receiving turns on the
> transmitter.  For reasons that are both personal and
> compelling I will
> control the transmit/receive function completely by
> a manual send/receive
> switch of some kind. 
> 
> I can accomplish what I want by using a double pole
> switch, one pole for the
> normal PTT and the other pole in the key line.  I am
> trying to save myself
> the trouble of installing such a switch--getting
> lazy in my old age.
> 
> Any help will be appreciated.
> 
> 73 Paul W5DM
> 
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