[Elecraft] Use of K3 voice keyer

[Jim McDonald]

True, and DXLab's WinWarbler works too.

73, Jim N7US



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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