[Elecraft] K3: PSK "mixed mode"

[Stephen Prior]

Jim

I'm rather hoping that this will be included in further expansion of the P3. It's an expensive potential solution though, if you don't already have one!

73

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Stephen


On 20 Oct 2011, at 16:34, Jim Miller <jim at jtmiller.com> wrote:

> 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
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