[Elecraft] External controls for the K3?

[Walter Underwood]

How about a separate keypad that allows direct frequency entry and has macros? When Nick (N3WG) is finished with the PigPad, it will be available.

http://blog.pignology.net/2014/02/pigpad-prototype.html

wunder
K6WRU

On Apr 3, 2014, at 1:41 PM, Hisashi T Fujinaka <htodd at twofifty.com> wrote:

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