K3 cable w/ARI500/ALS1300

[AB2E Darrell]

Greetings all,
        I do not yet have a K3 but monitor the list.
I'm trying to help Dale N3BNA, who is currently operating from CX6VM.
He is trying to get the ARI500/ALS1300 to work with the K3. It required making a cable with numerous resistors, and currently it is not working except for 15m.

Is anyone currently using this combination, K3  / ARI500/ ALS1300? If so, was there a commercially made cable that you acquired that allows it to work with the K3? If so, where?
The ARI500 is the Ameritron interface which picks up the band data info and auto-changes the amp.

73 Darrell AB2E
     
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[Joe Subich, W4TV-4]

The ARI-5000 does not have pull-up resistors on the "band data" lines.
The K3 will require either the "Ext Band Data Mods" or the updated
KIO3 Digital/Remote I/O board if the K3 was shipped prior to 10 Dec
2008 (S/N before approximately 2362).  See:
    http://www.elecraft.com/K3/mods/K3ALCMod_Rev_B.pdf

With pull-up resistors installed on the KIO3 Digital/Remote IO board
(or on pins 4,5,6 & 7 in the ALS-500), the cable can be similar to
the one designed by N0SS for the K3 and Quadra or FL-7000. See:
    http://www.n0ss.net/k3-to-quadra_08jan2010.pdf
    http://www.n0ss.net/k3-to-fl7000_25aug09.pdf

The connections are:
       K3 ACC              ARI-500 RJ-45
    --------------------------------------
         5       ground         1
        13     Band Data A      7
         3     Band Data B      6
         9     Band Data C      5
        14     Band Data D      4
        10     Key Out/PTT      2

TX Inh and +13V are not used by the ARI-500.

73,

    ... Joe, W4TV


On 11/5/2010 3:56 PM, AB2E Darrell wrote:

>
> Greetings all,
>          I do not yet have a K3 but monitor the list.
> I'm trying to help Dale N3BNA, who is currently operating from CX6VM.
> He is trying to get the ARI500/ALS1300 to work with the K3. It required making a cable with numerous resistors, and currently it is not working except for 15m.
>
> Is anyone currently using this combination, K3  / ARI500/ ALS1300? If so, was there a commercially made cable that you acquired that allows it to work with the K3? If so, where?
> The ARI500 is the Ameritron interface which picks up the band data info and auto-changes the amp.
>
> 73 Darrell AB2E
>    
> ______________________________________________________________
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