[Elecraft] Portable Keyboard for KX3

[Dick Dievendorff]

The KX3's RS-232 port will accept KX3 programmer's reference commands, but
you'll need to wrap all the text you want sent as CW or RTTY or PSK31 with a
KY command,  no longer than the internal command buffer, and a semicolon to
end the string and start sending.

These details are taken care of by the KX3 Utility's terminal tab, which
operates on a PC, and provides a screen buffer that displays more than a few
characters at a time. 

A small netbook will suffice, and the netbook has utility beyond a
rig-specific keyboard.

Dick, K6KR

-----Original Message-----
From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of James kvochick
Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2012 3:41 PM
To: don at w3fpr.com
Cc: elecraft at mailman.qth.net; John Lally
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Portable Keyboard for KX3

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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