[Elecraft] Summary: Genovation keypad & K3/K3S

[Stefan von Baltz, DL1IAO]

I did get one reply on this topic. Dave NK7Z has already documented nicely on his website how to connect a Genovation keypad to the P3. The question was how to connect it directly to the K3/K3S, if possible at all, in order to free the P3’s USB-port. 

A pre-Genovation "button box" was hooked up to the K3’s RS232 port. It uses its internal memory to store the macros and not the available K3 macros. In order to be able to get the K3 to recognize and share several RS232 ports LP-BRIDGE is used to create several virtual serial ports. CAT on one of the virtual serial ports and the "button box" to another. One has to bridge the real "button box" to another of the LPBRIDGE created virtual ports, e.g. with a software called VSPE. 

It will be up to experimentation if a Genovation keypad can be connected in a similar way. The difference is that the internal K3/K3S memories have to be used.


73,

Stefan DL1IAO, SA3CWW/SM9A