[Elecraft] Use of K3 voice keyer

[nr4c]

Since you can access the M1-M4 buttons for 'playback' from N1MM for CW 
messages, I assume it (N1MM) could playback the M1-M4 DVR messages as 
well.  I think it just sends the EPL macro as ascii text over the serial 
line.

...bill  nr4c




On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:19:01 +0000, Mike Clarke wrote:
> 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
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