[Elecraft] K3: PSK "mixed mode"

[Don Wilhelm]

Jim,

If you can convince the authors of the software that provides the 
waterfall display you wish to send an ascii stream to the K3 via the 
"KY" command(s), then what you wish will be accomplished.
The K3 has made that provision possible, but so far, only a couple 
applications have chosen to take advantage of it.  I am not certain 
about the inclusion of "point and click", you may have to tune the 
signal to a certain point on the waterfall display - it all depends on 
the software author.
For an parallel approach for RTTY using PSK-D, take a look at what is 
available with MMTTY.  Something similar could be done with PSK-31.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 10/20/2011 11:34 AM, Jim Miller 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.
>
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