[Elecraft] How do I generate a "Key Down" to tune an external 6m amp?

[Oliver Dröse]

Either that (works on FM, too) or simply press the TUNE button (not ATU 
TUNE), it's there exactly for that, putting out a steady carrier, no 
matter which mode. ;-) Besides this the K3 (assuming you are talking 
about that as no mention of the radio) well has a separate input for a 
straight key that could be used, too.

73, Olli - DH8BQA



Am 16.01.2014 09:13, schrieb Fred Smith:
> I use a Data Mode and the transmit button to do the same.
>
>
> 73,
> Fred/N0AZZ
> K3 Ser # 6730--KX3 # 5210--K2/100 # 6470-KAT100
> P3/SVGA--KAT500--W2
> Amps Elecraft KPA500 HF/6m--Alpha's 9500 HF--87A HF--Mirage B-5030-G
> 300+w--(2) B-5016-G's 165w 2m
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> [mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of WILLIS COOKE
> Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2014 11:21 PM
> To: Bob KD7YZ; K3 List
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] How do I generate a "Key Down" to tune an external
> 6m amp?
>
> The easy way is to hold the dash on the bug.  If you want to use a straight
> key just wire it across the terminals on the bug.  You don't need but one
> key input.  The way the old telegraphers used a bug was to insert the flat
> connector between the base and the copper/brass strip that connects to the
> contact on the straight key and the straight key was permanently bolted to
> the desk and wired to the telegraph line.
>
> Willis 'Cookie' Cooke, TDXS DX Chairman
> K5EWJ & Trustee N5BPS, USS Cavalla, USS Stewart
>
>
> ________________________________
>   From: Bob KD7YZ <KD7YZ at denstarfarm.us>
> To: K3 List <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2014 8:13 PM
> Subject: [Elecraft] How do I generate a "Key Down" to tune an external 6m
> amp?
>
>
> My Old viproplex Bug does the cw for me and there seems to not be an
> available jack for an old straight key.
> I have configured some settings in order to keep me form applying power
> before a PTT action closes a sequencer.
>
> Thus I seem to have made it so that pressing Xmit or hold-xmit/Tune will
> NOT issue a PTT action however will send out RF. This does not close
> PTT anywhere so the Sequencer does bot close the relay on the PA and I
> can't rune it up.
>
> I can push the foot-switch and the relays all close. However, there is
> no steady RF. Just what I can make in dots or dashes
>
> Is there a way to get key-down WITH a closed PTT so external 6m PA comes on?
>
>