[Elecraft] External controls for the K3?

[Bill Brooks]

You might try Pignology. I have two of the PigKnobs, one for each K3. You
can remotely tune at different rates and it has 8 programmable buttons for
K3 macros. It works really well and if you spend long hours tuning, like
contesting, it is a real relief to be able to run many radio functions
without your hands far from the keyboard.

No interest in the company, just a satisfied customer. BTW, Nick is very
responsive.

Bill


On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 3:41 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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