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

Dick Dievendorff dick at elecraft.com
Fri Jan 17 23:53:19 EST 2014


I'm missing something. My K3 back panel has two 1/4 inch key jacks, one for a paddle, one for a straight key.  I plug a paddle into one, and the keying line from my computer into the other.  I have a vibroplex bug and plan to put a 1/4 inch mono Y adapter plug into the straight key socket.  Then I can press the dash side of the bug.

What I do now for key down is press the TUNE button on the front of the radio.
73 de 
Dick, K6KR

> On Jan 17, 2014, at 20:44, Bob KD7YZ <KD7YZ at denstarfarm.us> wrote:
> 
> Willis 'Cookie' said:
> 
>> The easy way is to hold the dash on the bug.
> 
> unless I am missing something in Setup, I do not see how to tell the K3
> that I want manual dashes and string-dots. There is no setup for the
> keyer. So obviously if I short out the dash side, of the Vibroplex
> paddle, I get dashes. Many of them.
> 
> And that is my question. How do I get a solid key-down, where the PTT IS
> activated, and RF flows?
> 
> Seems right simple ,but my two choices here do not work.
> Use the keyer, push the PTT foot-switch, and I get a nice string of dots
> or dashes, as all of us expect.
> 
> Push/HOLD the XMIT button and the PTT output of the K3 "seems" to not
> engage.
> 
> Where, on the K3, would one pug in a regular old straight-key, and
> expect it to work as a regular old straight-key?
> 
> The answer to that would solve my Sequencer problem for tuning w/o
> frying anything in the LNA chain.
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