K3 roger beep when mic keyed with XMIT?

[k5oai]

I got frustrated with my inability to get the vox setup correctly,
my problem getting the gain/antivox set correctly, NOT a k3 problem!
So I started keying my mic(s) with the XMIT button.
Mic's are a D-104 and a CM-500, neither one has it's own keying line.

After a few minutes with a group I chat with every day,
I was ask where I got the "Roger Beep" for my rig.
I ask what's that, and was told it was a thing that CB'ers often added,
that causes a beep sound at the end of their transmissions.

(since I hear a tone here in the shack,
when I push the XMIT key as well as when I unkey,
I don't know if it goes out on the air both times or not?)

I found the source of this annoyance to be the SW TONE being set to ON.
My question is, how do I keep the beeps,
for when I push the other buttons on the face of the K3,
but not get the added 'feature' of the "CBer's Roger Beep"
(also known as a courtesy tone, I'm told), every time I key the mic.


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GB & 73
K5OAI
Sam Morgan
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[Leigh L. Klotz Jr WA5ZNU]

This might help: here's a PTT button you can build from parts at Radio Shack.
Use the PTT RCA jack instead of the 15-pin accessory connector; I just forgot.

http://wa5znu.org/2007/11/k3/ptt/

Leigh/WA5ZNU

[Ian Maude]

You could always try setting the noise gate to the point where the beeps are
not heard.

73 Ian
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On 7 October 2010 13:12, Sam Morgan <[hidden email]> wrote:

> I got frustrated with my inability to get the vox setup correctly,
> my problem getting the gain/antivox set correctly, NOT a k3 problem!
> So I started keying my mic(s) with the XMIT button.
> Mic's are a D-104 and a CM-500, neither one has it's own keying line.
>
> After a few minutes with a group I chat with every day,
> I was ask where I got the "Roger Beep" for my rig.
> I ask what's that, and was told it was a thing that CB'ers often added,
> that causes a beep sound at the end of their transmissions.
>
> (since I hear a tone here in the shack,
> when I push the XMIT key as well as when I unkey,
> I don't know if it goes out on the air both times or not?)
>
> I found the source of this annoyance to be the SW TONE being set to ON.
> My question is, how do I keep the beeps,
> for when I push the other buttons on the face of the K3,
> but not get the added 'feature' of the "CBer's Roger Beep"
> (also known as a courtesy tone, I'm told), every time I key the mic.
>
>
> --
> GB & 73
> K5OAI
> Sam Morgan
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> Elecraft mailing list
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