[Elecraft] Contesting use

[KQ8M]

>From the site of the XKeys products, they have a program called X-keys
TrueCOM and VCOM Software. This will send commands through a serial port to
a device. I have sent them an email asking how it works and if it will
interface with a device such as K3. If it will, then you can setup commands
to send to the K3 much the same as the K3 Utility program. I am not totally
familiar with the XKeys themselves so am not sure how it works but it sure
looks promising,


Tim Herrick, KQ8M
kq8m at kq8m.com




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Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2011 3:00 PM
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Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Contesting use

Hello,

I' cll chance another post to this very long thread. That device plugs into
a USB port on the PC and as I understand it injects keystrokes and mouse
events which are received by the program that has focus on the PC (the
active window). Perhaps in a contest run situation that will always be the
logging program, but for general use it's a big problem. Also you'd still
have to program the K3 macros into the logging program and assign them to
whatever you have programmed the "pod" to send when the various buttons are
pushed. That's more programming, not less. I and many others have one of
those Griffin wheels sitting unused on the shelf because of these
shortcomings. The Ten-Tec pod talks directly to their rigs and I am sure
that's what K3 users are asking for , too.

AB2TC - Knut


Don Wilhelm-4 wrote
> 
> This sort of item is just the "pod" I was referring to.  I do not know 
> of the specifics of this particular pod, but it holds promise.  If the 
> buttons are capable of sending K3 commands as macros, it can be a winner.
> 
> 73,
> Don W3FPR
> 
> 
> On 11/22/2011 10:23 PM, Bill W4ZV wrote:
>> This looks very promising for 12 macro keys and a VFO:
>>
>> http://xkeys.com/xkeys/xk12JSH.php
>>
>> Has anyone done this with the K3?
>>
>> 73,  Bill
> <snip>
> 


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