[Elecraft] External controls for the K3?

[Hisashi T Fujinaka]

I'm embarassed to admit this but I have a question:
In CW pileups, I usually have M1 programmed to send my callsign and M2
to just send the standard "callsign 5NN TU". The thread on ergonomics
made me think about the cramp I get in my hand holding it up by the top
of the rig.

Has anyone ever thought about remoting out the M1-M4 buttons? If it's in
the manual, I apologize; I'm not running on all cylinders today.

I used to do this all from my computer but I'm getting RF in my shack
lately (after winter detuned my vertical antenna) and I started getting
stray characters being sent. I also am very, very bad at using paddles
and when the cable to my Bencher got intermittent I just disconnected
it.

Last time everything went haywire (before I programmed the memory
buttons) I had to run around the shack looking for my straight key after
some stray RF rebooted my laptop during a contact with W1AW/something.
That contact went from 25WPM down to about 10WPM really quickly.

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Hisashi T Fujinaka - htodd at twofifty.com
BSEE(6/86) + BSChem(3/95) + BAEnglish(8/95) + MSCS(8/03) + $2.50 = latte