[Elecraft] K3S fsk with usb

[brian]

I think this is interesting.  Things have gone in a circle and 
paralleled what happened to CW.  The solution to CW timing problems was 
WINKEY.  Now we are doing the same with RTTY.

This isn't new. HAL and others have had stand alone boxes mirroring this 
for ages. You sent the ASCII character text stream to it and it 
generates the precisely timed RTTY signals (either FSK or AFSK) along 
with PTT.  The ASCII string can be somewhat ill timed. I still use HAL's 
DXP-38.  No sound card /operating system quirks to deal with. I can 
understand wires. Of course, you need some program to generate the ASCII 
string and send it to the hardware box.

Nothing is really new under the sun.

73 de Brian/K3KO

On 8/31/2018 6:17 AM, Peter B wrote:
> Thanks to everyone for the help and info.
> It help me a lot to get things done the whe i wanted.
> 73s
> Peter/pd1rp
>
>
> Op vr 31 aug. 2018 om 05:31 schreef Bob Wilson, N6TV <n6tv at arrl.net>
>
>> Yes the S-BOX is designed to key FSK and PTT on a K3 ACC port, providing
>> the traditional NPN keying circuit, with no Y-BOX required (though it may
>> be convenient to have as well, depending on what else you need to connect
>> to the K3 ACC port).  Straight 9-pin and 15-pin D-SUB cables handle
>> everything, no need to use the S-BOX RCA connectors if you have a K3 or
>> K3S.  There are four independent keying circuits inside the S-BOX, so you
>> can key FSK on two radios with the one box, or CW/PTT on one and FSK/PTT on
>> the other, if you like.
>>
>> See these links for a sample connection diagram and schematics:
>>
>> https://www.kkn.net/~n6tv/S-BOX/Features.html#RemoteHams
>>
>> https://www.kkn.net/~n6tv/S-BOX/Features.html#SO2RRTTY
>>
>> Many other configurations are possible.
>>
>> If you use a USB-to-Serial device by Edgeport, MMTTY can open open the
>> serial port directly at 45.5 baud Baudot.  If you use one based on FTDI,
>> such as the one built-in to the S-BOX-USB, you need to use EXTFSK or
>> EXTFSK64 with MMTTY since MMTTY standalone cannot open these directly at
>> 45.5 baud.
>>
>> The K3 produces very clean FSK.  AFSK can also work but there is more
>> potential for RFI problems and getting the audio levels set just right.
>>
>> 73,
>> Bob, N6TV
>> https://bit.ly/S-BOX
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 6:53 PM, Peter W2IRT <lists at w2irt.net> wrote:
>>
>>> I went a similar route with a MicroKeyer MK-II. Does the job very well,
>>> but it
>>> makes disconnecting and re-connecting the radio a cast iron bear of a
>> job.
>>> I
>>> really want to replace the MK-II with another (simpler) solution for FSK,
>>> CW
>>> keying, SSB voice file sequencing and CAT control, and was thinking the
>>> combination of a Y-box and an S-box-USB would do the job. The problem
>>> being the
>>> MK-II is RFI-susceptible, and the software has eaten itself on several
>>> occasions
>>> over the past few years.
>>>
>>>   - pjd
>>>
>>>
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>>> On Behalf Of AB4IQ
>>> Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2018 9:04 PM
>>> To: 'Nr4c'; 'Richard Ferch'
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>>> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3S fsk with usb
>>>
>>> I have a RigExpert TI-8 and Cable for the K3S that I bought new that does
>>> FSK with a built in Winkeyer as well.  I thought I would use it on the
>> K3S
>>> but instead I just went the USB route and do AFSK.  It's still setting in
>>> the box looking lonely.  I also have cables for the Ten Tec Orion II, and
>>> Kenwood 590SG which I have parted with recently and probably need to get
>>> rid
>>> of this much needed (Ya Right) stuff.  Hi..
>>>
>>> The USB route was the simplest and does all of the sound card modes.
>>>
>>> Ed.. AB4IQ
>>>
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