[Elecraft] K3: Keying problem on CAT line

[Fred Jensen]

I knew this would happen.  After turning everything off and on a dozen 
times yesterday trying to fix the CW keying issue with N1MM, I gave up, 
made a few SSB Q's in the RAC Winter, and shut the rig down.  Last 
night, I turned it back on just to check it, and had the same problem, 
so I turned it all off.

Today, I booted the computer, turned on the K3, started N1MM, and 
everything worked fine.  I'm sure it will fail at the start of, or 
during the next CW contest I get into :-(

Has not been a good week:  One of the irrigation manifolds froze and 
split the pipe;  my rotator suddenly won't turn west of north;  The rig 
keying problem ended my CW-only RAC effort;  and I washed my phone in a 
pocket of my cargo shorts.  Not an approved method to erase your phone # 
directory ... but it works.  Now, I have a new phone [$175] with more 
buttons, menus and options than my K3, only a handful of which I 
understand, and which features an empty phone directory.  Sigh...

I have no idea what changed the K3 CW problem.  It would be nice if 
there was some way for the K3 Utility to exercise the DTR and RTS [like 
it can send and receive K3 commands].

Thanks for all the advice and help.

73 and Merry Christmas

Fred K6DGW
Auburn CA USA