[Elecraft] Elecraft] K3 and JT65/WSPR

[Adrian]

The K3 TX delay has no control over when the JT65 tones commence.

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[mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Jim Brown
Sent: Friday, 20 July 2012 7:21 AM
To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 and JT65/WSPR

On 7/19/2012 1:24 PM, Joe Subich, W4TV wrote:
> You will have better results if you use a serial port or USB to serial 
> converter with a single transistor driver on the RTS line for PTT as 
> teh JT65 software switches the transmitter "on" one second before the 
> tones start to avoid clipping the initial tones or hot switching any 
> amplifier/preamplifier relays.

Joe,

Doesn't the K3's TXDELAY setting take care of that?  I'm SURE that it does
for the power amp, and I'd be very surprised if it wasn't also implemented
to protect its own relays.

73, Jim K9YC

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