[Elecraft] (no subject)

[Jim Harris]

Rich,

Thank you for your thoughtful response.  I've copied and pasted your comments into a new 
email as I get the digest and cannot answer directly.

To make a long story short your suggestion #3 below led me to turn CONFIG:PTT-KEY to OFF-OFF 
and that seems to have corrected the situations.  I would have never guessed that since I
had not checked to send PTT through DTR/RTS on COM1 that the K3 would need to be told to 
not look for something that wasn't there.  And also, why would that affect something in the 
radio that was totally unrelated.  But, alas, greater minds than mine have stumbled over 
smaller things.

My thanks to everyone, including Wayne, who expressed an interest in this.

Have a good day and 73.

Jim, W0EM


From: Richard Ferch <ve3iay at storm.ca>
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 Menu Stuck


 
Jim,
 
This is a bit of a stab in the dark, and may or may not have anything to 
do with what is happening to you, but exactly how many methods are you 
using to do PTT? It sounds as if you may have two or perhaps even three 
methods enabled simultaneously, which is not a good idea and might be 
contributing to the problem by confusing the firmware somehow if the 
hardware and software commands are getting crossed due to slight timing
differences.

 
1) MMTTY is controlling PTT on DTR/RTS on COM4, which you have connected 
to the PTT pin on the ACC connector via a keying circuit.
 
 
2) You are using MMTTY's Radio command, which means MMTTY will be 
sending TX; and RX; commands over COM1 unless you have deliberately 
blanked out the RX and TX boxes in the Commands pane of the MMTTY Radio 
command dialog box.


3) If you happen to have the PTT box checked for DTR/RTS in the MMTTY 
Radio command dialog (top right), MMTTY is also controlling DTR/RTS on 
COM1, and if you have the K3's CONFIG:PTT-KEY set to anything other than 
OFF-xxx, this would also be commanding the K3's PTT on and off.
 
Since you have method 1 implemented via the ACC connector, you don't 
really need MMTTY's Radio command at all, at least not for purposes of 
PTT. If you are using Radio command in order to get radio frequency 
information into MMTTY for logging purposes, you might consider:
 
(a) unchecking the PTT box for DTR/RTS in the MMTTY Radio command dialog 
box; and if this doesn't work or it is already unchecked
(b) clearing out the contents of the Rx and Tx commands in the MMTTY 
Radio command dialog box in order to stop MMTTY from trying to control 
PTT via software.
 
Hope this helps.
 
73,
Rich VE3KI