[Elecraft] K3: PSK "mixed mode"

[Jim Miller]

I've been playing around with PSK a bit with my PC and the K3. One thing I
don't care for with the digimodes is the need to drive the transceiver with
audio out from the PC. Messing with the drive levels and being wary of PC
audio sounds is a turn off.

The K3 has PSK-D which provides a nice facility for sending without those
issues. It would be nice to have a program which combines PSK-D sending with
the waterfall ability of a PC receiving/decoding the audio. That would give
a (limited) panoramic view, point and click QSY and AFC. It seems like this
is possible but haven't seen it done.

The K3 provides the audio regardless of whether PSK-D or PSK is chosen.  All
these programs already send and receive data to/from the K3 via the serial
link. It would seem like a small addition to add a KY stream for sending in
place of the audio output modulation. I realize it would require QSY to the
received signal but that doesn't seem like a big deal.

Are there other reasons which prevent this?

Jim ab3cv