[Elecraft] Elecraft newbie considering K3 vs KX3

[Bob Stephens]

I used RUMped with native KX3 CW support for the AZ Qso Party and it works really well.  I also use it with RUMlog for daily use.  

Bob AF9W


On Oct 17, 2012, at 12:12 PM, Ignacy wrote:

> 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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