MicroHAM DigiKeyer II with K3S

I have two MicroHAM DigiKeyer II's that I have used for years with Yaesu
FT1000 Mark-V transceivers. I recently switched to using Elecraft K3S radios
and purchased two new MicroHAM cables. I cannot get the MicroHAM router to
recognize the frequency of my newest K3S. I have the radio RS232 set to
38400 b and the MicroHam set to radio K3 38400 baud. I am also having other
issues getting this to work on RTTY, but those could be configuration
problems. I switched cables and DigiKeyers with a working system and this
still does not work. Is there a K3S setting that I am missing or is
something wrong the RS232 port of my new transciever?

John KK9A

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[Joe Subich, W4TV-4]

How have you connected Digikeyer II to the "RS-232 Port" in your K3S?

Are you sure the RJ-45 connector is seated correctly and none of the
wire/contacts have been crossed/dislocated?

73,

   ... Joe, W4TV


On 2/6/2016 4:14 PM, [hidden email] wrote:

> I have two MicroHAM DigiKeyer II's that I have used for years with Yaesu
> FT1000 Mark-V transceivers. I recently switched to using Elecraft K3S radios
> and purchased two new MicroHAM cables. I cannot get the MicroHAM router to
> recognize the frequency of my newest K3S. I have the radio RS232 set to
> 38400 b and the MicroHam set to radio K3 38400 baud. I am also having other
> issues getting this to work on RTTY, but those could be configuration
> problems. I switched cables and DigiKeyers with a working system and this
> still does not work. Is there a K3S setting that I am missing or is
> something wrong the RS232 port of my new transciever?
>
> John KK9A
>
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I think I spent too long trying to resolve this when I really had some other
plans on this beautiful sunny day and I did a poor job of swapping devices
for troubleshooting.  I believe that the problem is related to one of my
DigiKeyer IIs.  I just tried an old original design DigiKeyer that I had
laying around and it seems to function properly. Sorry for the bandwidth!

73,
John KK9A

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Subject: MicroHAM DigiKeyer II with K3S

I have two MicroHAM DigiKeyer II's that I have used for years with Yaesu
FT1000 Mark-V transceivers. I recently switched to using Elecraft K3S radios
and purchased two new MicroHAM cables. I cannot get the MicroHAM router to
recognize the frequency of my newest K3S. I have the radio RS232 set to
38400 b and the MicroHam set to radio K3 38400 baud. I am also having other
issues getting this to work on RTTY, but those could be configuration
problems. I switched cables and DigiKeyers with a working system and this
still does not work. Is there a K3S setting that I am missing or is
something wrong the RS232 port of my new transciever?

John KK9A

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The connectors on the MicroHAM cable and the Elecraft RJ-45 adaptor are
properly seated. If I plug (swap) the MicroHAM DB-15  and USB into an
obsolete DigiKeyer using the same radio, cables and computer the router
recognizes the K3S frequency and it all appears to work properly. The other
strange thing I was having using this DigiKeyerII is when I opened Writelog
the K3S immediately went into transmit mode, that is something that I have
never seen before. I had not used this DigiKeyer II in six months and never
with a K3S.

John KK9A



Joe Subich, W4TV lists at subich.com
Sat Feb 6 16:47:19 EST 2016

Are you sure the RJ-45 connector is seated correctly and none of the
wire/contacts have been crossed/dislocated?

73,

   ... Joe, W4TV


On 2/6/2016 4:14 PM, john at kk9a.com wrote:
> I have two MicroHAM DigiKeyer II's that I have used for years with Yaesu
> FT1000 Mark-V transceivers. I recently switched to using Elecraft K3S
radios
> and purchased two new MicroHAM cables. I cannot get the MicroHAM router to
> recognize the frequency of my newest K3S. I have the radio RS232 set to
> 38400 b and the MicroHam set to radio K3 38400 baud. I am also having
other
> issues getting this to work on RTTY, but those could be configuration
> problems. I switched cables and DigiKeyers with a working system and this
> still does not work. Is there a K3S setting that I am missing or is
> something wrong the RS232 port of my new transceiver?
>
> John KK9A

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