[Elecraft] K3 ACC connector and VGA cable

[Ed Muns]

> I am starting to get the my K3 integrated into my station.
> 
> I am thinking about building a breakout box to bring several 
> of the pins on the ACC connector out to RCA jacks.
> 
> I was wondering if I just hack off one end of a standard VGA 
> cable if the cable has enough wires in it to get to all the 
> pins on the ACC connector?
> Or, get a 15 pin VGA connector and make up my own cable?
> 
> Comments from the K3 community?

The breakout box with RCA Phono jacks is a good approach and used by many.

I prefer to use VGA Y-Adapter cables to combine whichever single-function
cables I need for a given setup.  I either make or buy the single-function
cables, e.g., FSK/PTT, KRC2, Top-Ten Decoder, etc.

As K6KR noted, many of the VGA Y-Adapters and other VGA cables have missing
connections or shorted connections that work fine in the intended VGA
applications.  So, you have to carefully check the continuity of VGA
adapters/cables for the K3 ACC application.  I've been through a lot of VGA
Y-Adapters and only found one source with all the connections made properly.

Ed - W0YK
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