[Elecraft] K3 & RemoteRig

[Milt -- N5IA]

Jim and Iain,

IMHO the cure for perfect control of the keying speed is to use a Winkeyer 
for your paddle connection and then connect the Winkeyer to pins 4 & 8 of 
the I/O RJ-45 jack on the rear of the RRC Control unit.  Make the proper I/O 
and Keyer settings in the RRC Control setup and you're there.

As I understand the manner of transferring keying from your RRC Control to 
the RRC Remote such that the vagaries of your Internet connection does NOT 
affect the keying of the Remote K3, the direct control and transfer of data 
has to be changed.  The result is absolutely perfect keying on the Remote K3 
so long as your Internet connection is NOT losing packets.  It truly is a 
superb application.  Having to give up the internal keyer capabilities of 
the K3, and the resultant display, is a very minor negative vs the truly 
remote operation that the Remote Rigs provide.

This is, as said above, IMHO.  Just a satisfied, new, short time user, and 
YMMV.

Mis dos centavos, de Milt, N5IA


-----Original Message----- 
From: Jim - KE8G
Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2013 9:41 AM
To: iain macdonnell - N6ML
Cc: Elecraft
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 & RemoteRig

Hi Iain,
Yes, I agree.... What I miss when keying through the RemoteRig, is that 
ability.  It seems when trying to adjust the WPM with the CW knob on the 
RemoteRig, that the speed is not smooth.  I can turn it clockwise for a bit 
and not much seems to change, then all of a sudden, it jumps quite a bit in 
speed.

As I said, I miss the ability to have that visual, as when just using the K3 
without the RemoteRig.

73 de Jim - KE8G


---- iain macdonnell - N6ML <ar at dseven.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Jim - KE8G <ke8g at cox.net> wrote:
> > Hello All,
> > I have a question for those of you who might be operating remotely.
> >
> > Currently, I have 2 K3s; one remote & the other at the control site.  I 
> > am a 100% CW guy and was wondering if someone has found a way to set the 
> > CW WPM other than using the CW knob on the RemoteRig unit?  Is there 
> > something within the RemoteRig software, that I just can't find?
> >
> > I really like the ability of the visual on the K3 when changing the WPM 
> > speeds, that I miss not having it available to me.
>
> If you're sending CW through the RemoteRig units, you're not using the
> K3's internal keyer, so changing its speeed would be irrelevant (as
> would the WPM displayed).
>
> 73,
>
>     ~iain / N6ML
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