[Elecraft] Portable Keyboard for KX3

James kvochick jameskvochick at me.com
Sun Apr 15 21:40:42 EDT 2012


http://www.icircuits.com/store/prod_misc_main.html

Has a PC to ASCII converter

Jim WB8AZP

Sent from my iPad

On Apr 15, 2012, at 8:35 PM, Don Wilhelm <w3fpr at embarqmail.com> wrote:

> John,
> 
> You would be referring in a keyboard to ASCII conversion.  During my 
> early years (1970s timeframe), with homebrew computers, I actually had a 
> keyboard that had ASCII output, but that gave way to the IBM PC keyboard 
> which has been the de-facto standard ever since.
> 
> So,if you can discover an IBMPC keyboard to ASCII converter, you could 
> feed that output to the KX3 and it would do digital for you.
> 
> In the meantime, there is PSK D and FSK D data modes that will accept CW 
> keying and produce PSK31 or RTTY output from the KX3 - *and* will 
> display the decoded text in the VFO B display area.  That is indeed 
> quite an accomplishment.
> 
> 73,
> Don W3FPR
> 
> On 4/15/2012 8:23 PM, John Lally wrote:
>> Does anyone know of a portable keyboard one can use to key the KX3?  This
>> would probably be through the key input on the KX3 so that I could type in
>> CW,RTTY, and PSK31 into the KX3.  Preferably,  this portable keyboard would
>> be self powered by its own internal battery.  Also a smaller sized keyboard
>> would be preferable.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> John
>> 
>> W7JJL
>> 
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