[Elecraft] KX3 and flrig operation

[Joel Black]

Mooneer,

I don't know if you got an answer or not, but I just verified that on 
RTTY, there is an occasional delay between the SLUSB keying and the 
radio keying. It's not there all the time and I did not get it to delay 
on PSK31 (I only tested RTTY and PSK31). I have a couple of <CR>'s built 
into my macros so that helps some.

I know I worked with you privately on this, but I was testing with my 
K3. I should have tested with the KX3. Doing some other testing, I 
thought I'd see what it's like for me. I see the slight delay. 
Sometimes, it seems to be as much as half a second or so. This is using 
my 2012 iMac with OSX 10.9.1.

However, my TX and RX LED's on the USB adapter do not stop talking. I'm 
using the KX3-to-DB9 adapter and connecting it to my K3-to-USB adapter. 
The K3-to-USB adapter has the TX and RX LED's. As far as I know, I have 
the latest drivers for that adapter.

Here is my macro for checking into the Alabama Emergency Net:

<TX>


<ZT>
<CALL> <CALL> de W4JBB W4JBB, Joel in Tuscaloosa County.
<RX>

After the initial <TX>, there are three carriage returns.

the DLY on the SLUSB is set to fully CCW.

I'm also cross-posting into the linuxham group to see if anyone there 
has any ideas.

73,
Joel - W4JBB

On 12/29/13, 9:11 PM, Mooneer Salem wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I recently upgraded to a 13" retina MacBook Pro and am trying to set up
> fldigi and flrig. At the moment I have flrig working and talking to fldigi
> and can adjust most of the KX3 from the flrig application. However,
> occasionally when I flip fldigi into transmit mode to respond to someone,
> the KX3 takes a bit of time before it finally starts transmitting. As a
> result, a large amount of the text being sent gets cut off.
>
> One thing I did notice is that the red and green LEDs inside the KX3's USB
> cable constantly light up when flrig is in the foreground. After ten or so
> seconds with flrig in the background, those lights stop working. Could my
> laptop and/or flrig be putting the USB port to sleep? How do I get it to
> not do that?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Mooneer K6AQ
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