[Elecraft] Elecraft newbie considering K3 vs KX3

[Ignacy]

Matt,
Did you use a separate USB/serial cable? Perhaps, a third party will come
with one USB/serial cable that has extra wires, possibly with some small
circuits like yours, that do the radio connection, CW and PTT simultaneously 
Rumlog does software CW with KX3 but I don't know how well.

Did you run KX3 standalone in the Oceania contest?

I worked in Oceania CW last year as VK2/NO9E. Worked some 180 QSOs in 2-3
hrs using IC7000+ long wires. Got up last Sunday morning (6 AM GMT) and
worked 15 stations with K3. Amp needed.

73,
Ignacy  

 

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Matt Maguire <vk2acl at gmail.com> wrote:

On 18/10/2012, at 1:06 AM, Ignacy <no9e at arrl.net> wrote:

> I own both K3 and KX3.
>
> K3 is mature radio. Works very well. But the design is a few years old.
>
> KX3 is new radio with new design.
> ...
> The contest programs
> cannot easily send CW without extra hardware (with exceptions).

I actually used N1MM with the KX3 in the Oceania DX CW contest last weekend
(and in the
Oceania DX SSB contest the weekend before). It was the first time I had used
a contesting program to generate CW, and I discovered that N1MM is a
powerful program. To get it to work with the KX3, all that was required was
a trivial circuit with just a single transistor and single resistor, which
is pretty easy. In the end I'll probably get a Winkeyer or similar, but the
simple transistor interface was a quick and easy way to get on the air and
give automated CW contesting a go.

73, Matt VK2ACL




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