[Elecraft] K3 Digital audio out ?

[David Cutter]

Somebody said they didn't care what the stream was, it could be dealt with 
externally, so, could we tap off the relevant signal, thro an off-board 
buffer and take it to a new socket on the back?

David
G3UNA

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Julian, G4ILO" <julian.g4ilo at gmail.com>
To: <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 11:24 AM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 Digital audio out ?


>
>
> DH2SE wrote:
>>
>> Hi Simon and Julian,
>>
>> thank you for your support. I'd also appreciate that if such a signal
>> would come out of the K3. Others (IC-7700 et al.) support that too,
>> sometimes via USB or ethernet. I'm not happy to digitalize the analog 
>> line
>> out audio signal external into a PCM stream by using e.g. a
>> microcontroller because of the additional signal propagation delay of the
>> ADC conversion. For using the K3 as a remote TRX it is nowadays not
>> state-of-the-art to let a PC run all days long. A modified wireless lan
>> router is less expensive, regarding its power comsumption. I already
>> thought about using a wireless lan router w/ integrated VoIP port (where
>> you an plug in an analog telephone) to plug the line out and the line in
>> port of the K3 to this device by using an "telephone"-interface to solve
>> that problem. That could provide a audio connection e.g. via skype to the
>> K3 from all places, if you want even by using a standard telephone line 
>> to
>> "call" the K3 from every fixed line or cell phone. Hw ?
>>
>>
>
> I have such a VOIP router, which I use to have a separate office phone. I
> think your idea could work, if you could find a suitable interface to make
> the K3 look like a phone. My own interest is more in being able to access
> the radio wirelessly from around the house, for which that solution is not
> appropriate. Timewave has released a gadget that provides full access to 
> the
> radio using Bluetooth, but inevitably it can be used only under Windows. 
> :(
>
> Since getting audio samples out of the K3 DSP is apparently a non-runner,
> what we need is for someone clever to develop a something based on an
> embedded Linux board, to present a web based interface to the K3 with
> streaming audio. That would work over a LAN or across the wider Internet,
> whatever you wanted. At present, though, the only solution appears to be 
> to
> get a Ten-Tec Omni VII. I think Elecraft missed a trick in not designing 
> the
> K3 so a web based interface like the Omni VII could have been an option.
>
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