(Fwd) RE: K3 with a PW-1

[gdaught6]

We learn something every day, huh?  At least I do!

73,

------- Forwarded message follows -------
From:           "microHAM America" <microham@microham-
usa.com>
To:             "'Dick Dievendorff'" <[hidden email]>,
        <[hidden email]>
Subject:         RE: [Elecraft] K3 with a PW-1
Date sent:       Fri, 31 Oct 2008 21:04:37 -0400


Dick,

Another user with the PW-1 manual informed me that the
Band Voltage is not used in the PW-1.  It is only looped
through the ACC connectors.  

That being the case, transcoding the K3 CAT data to CI-V
is the only practical way to control the PW-1 from the K3.

George, as far as I know there is no way other than a
dedicated controller that would take the BCD data and
generate a pseudo CI-V stream with the "center of the
band" for each band.  A PIC could probably be programmed
to perform the function but it might be tricky to get
the PW-1 to accept it as an Icom transceiver.

73,

   ... Joe, W4TV
   

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dick Dievendorff [mailto:[hidden email]]
> Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 7:52 PM
> To: [hidden email]
> Cc: 'microHAM America'
> Subject: RE: [Elecraft] K3 with a PW-1
>
>
> I'm going to try microHAM's StationMaster for exactly that
> function.  Who knows, I know the SteppIR guys and may
> eventually get one of those, too!
>
> If you're not often on the WARC bands, maybe a manual
> technique for those bands will suffice, and a simpler device
> (perhaps built on the schematics from W4TV) will do the job.  
> I want the WARC bands included.
>
> 73 de Dick, K6KR
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [hidden email] [mailto:[hidden email]]
> Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 4:27 PM
> To: Dick Dievendorff
> Subject: RE: [Elecraft] K3 with a PW-1
>
> Hi Dick!
>
> > My PW-1 follows the ICOM exciter's frequency by monitoring
> > the CI-V bus. That enables it to track the WARC bands,
> > something you can't do with the ICOM band voltage method.
>
> Yeah, it will apparently do band-tracking by either method.  
> I didn't know that.  But what does one do to adapt from the
> K3 BCD band data to the Icom CI-V bus?  
>
> 73,
>
> George T Daughters, K6GT
> CU in the California QSO Party (CQP)
> October 4-5, 2008
>
>
>
>

------- End of forwarded message -------George T Daughters, K6GT
CU in the California QSO Party (CQP)
October 4-5, 2008



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