[Elecraft] Use of K3 voice keyer

[Mike Clarke]

Hi George,

Being terminally lazy, I too tired of reaching all the way over
to the radio when I wanted to trigger the voice keyer!  To solve
the problem (as well as the more serious irritation of losing
audio for a fraction of a second when I tap the PTT to cancel
message playback) I've made a custom PTT controller using a Wii
nunchuk and an arduino that talks to the K3 over serial.

There are a couple of blog posts on it here:

http://clarkema.org/posts/2011-12/2011-12-20-arduino-rig-control.html
http://clarkema.org/posts/2012-01/2012-01-05-arduino-rig-control.html

It's all very rough at the moment, buut I've been using it on air
since the beginning of the year and been delighted with it.
Indeed, I've found that the ease of triggering playback has
changed the whole way I use the voice keyer.

I'm hoping to be able to publish a more polished version of the
setup including serial pasthrough when I get back to the UK; but
the basic hard-coded version is fairly straightforward to
implement if you have access to an Arduino and something you want
to use as a controller.

73,

-- 
Mike, M0PRL / VP8DMH

On 22/Jan 22:40, Georgek5kg at aol.com wrote:

> Also, is there a way to key the messages from an external key pad, kinda  
> like the iMate is for the Icom 756Pro radios?
>  
> 73, George