[Elecraft] Vedr: Vedr: [KX3] Does the KX3 support the Kenwood Master/Slave connection?

Mon Sep 10 16:12:22 EDT 2012

I Just tryed this now, and wow, this is cool!!

I now have a remote panel (the KX3) for my TS-590!! :-)

I can now tune and change modes on my TS-590 from the KX3.

But the KX3 turns of all the receive/transmit functionality so I didn't got any panadapter, and I can't use any of the other unik features of the KX3, so I'm only halfway there.
And it only goes one way, so tuning the TS-590 will not tune the KX3. I haven't yet tryed on the K2 (need to make a new cable for that), but I guess it's the same.
If I dare suggest a new meny option who lets the RX/TX on the KX3 remain on, I will get about 90% to the target. :-)
(The remaining is 5% antenna switching, which is easy http://www.herostechnology.co.uk/pages/RF_Filters/filters.html#SPLTBYP and 5% for leting the TS-590 control the KX3, the last 5 % I can't see any easy sollution for.)

Martin Storli 
LA8OKA
Oslo, Norway 

ARCTICPEAK's Radio pages! 
http://www.arcticpeak.com/radio.htm

Fra: Martin Storli - LA8OKA <arcticpeak at yahoo.no>
Til: Wayne Burdick <n6kr at elecraft.com>; Elecraft Reflector <elecraft at mailman.qth.net> 
Sendt: Mandag, 10. september 2012 17.07
Emne: [Elecraft] Vedr: [KX3] Does the KX3 support the Kenwood Master/Slave connection?

Many thanks Wayne! 

I have read that post but I didn't realize at the time what I could do with it. :-)
(Wayne post so others don't need to do a search: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/KX3-use-as-a-k3-remote-rig-td7562242.html#a7562268 )

The reason I asked about the Kenwood Master/Slave is of course because I have some Kenwoods on the table.
But the Autoinformation may be better for my intended use, since no pushing on buttons are necesarry.

What I want to try out is to use the KX3 as a panadapter with my TS-2000X or TS-590 as transmitters (because they have 100 watt, and the PA for the KX3 isn't ready), and to do so, the KX3 needs to follow the frequency on the Kenwood transceiver.

Remote control of my K2 is also very interesting. :-) I must try that when I have time!

But the post only describes what to do on the controlling KX3, what needs to be done in order for the KX3 to receive frequency information?

Martin Storli 
LA8OKA
Oslo, Norway 

ARCTICPEAK's Radio pages! 
http://www.arcticpeak.com/radio.htm

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Fra: Wayne Burdick <n6kr at elecraft.com>
Til: Martin Storli - LA8OKA <arcticpeak at yahoo.no> 
Kopi: "elecraft at mailman.qth.net" <elecraft at mailman.qth.net> 
Sendt: Mandag, 10. september 2012 16.45
Emne: Re: [Elecraft] [KX3] Does the KX3 support the Kenwood Master/Slave connection?

Martin,

The KX3 and K3 do not support Kenwood's master/slave protocol. However, they do support different variations of Elecraft's own master/slave protocol. This allows "remote-rig" operation with various different hardware configurations.

The K3 version of the protocol is extremely fast, and provides virtually 100% emulation of a remote K3 by a local (terminal) K3.

The KX3 implementation is at present experimental, but it will provide limited control of a KX3, K3, or K2 (only VFOs, mode, bandwidth, and RIT). I posted on this topic in detail quite recently.

73,
Wayne
N6KR

On Sep 10, 2012, at 5:09 AM, Martin Storli - LA8OKA wrote:

> Does the KX3 support the Kenwood Master/Slave connection?
> This could be usefull in a SO2R contest operating environment, Multi-Multi contest operating environment and on DXpeditions.
> 
> (For those of you that aren't familiar with the Kenwood Master/Slave, it is a system consisting of 2 Kenwood transceivers, where one transceiver is set-up as a master and the other is set-up as a slave, the transceivers are connected with an serial cable, and this set-up alows transfering of the operating frequency from the master transceiver to the slave transceiver.
> But what have all this Kenwood-stuff to do with Elecraft, you may ask? It's because Kenwood transceivers and Elecraft transceivers both use the Kenwood protokol, they speak the same language you may say.)
> 
> Martin Storli
> LA8OKA
> Oslo, Norway
> 
> ARCTICPEAK's Radio pages!
> http://www.arcticpeak.com/radio.htm
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