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Hans J Rasmusen OZ7BQ

Re: N1MM and keying KX3. What happens to the slashes // Solved

Thanks for the response. The solution is simple. N1MM appears no to support the KX3 (K2 and K3) Command Set in full.
If you want to avoid the double slashes // in callsigns, you have to use the standard N1MM key commands and a Keying interface like WinKeyer USB. More to carry if you go portable, but may be easier if you participate in a CW contest.

73 and enjoy the forthcoming WPX CW contest.
OZ7BQ Hans Jørgen (Joe).
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Jim Brown-10

Re: N1MM and keying KX3. What happens to the slashes // Solved

On 5/22/2014 8:50 AM, Hans J Rasmusen OZ7BQ wrote:
> If you want to avoid the double slashes // in callsigns, you have to use the standard N1MM key commands and a Keying interface like WinKeyer USB.

Does the KX3 not support CW via DTR?

73, Jim K9YC
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Alan Hawrylyshen

Re: [KX3] N1MM and keying KX3. What happens to the slashes // Solved

There’s no DTR. It is a 3 line / RX/TX/GND interface…. so it seems that DTR based CW is out of the question.
Alan
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On 22 May 2014, at 08:58, Jim Brown <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Does the KX3 not support CW via DTR?
On 22 May 2014, at 08:58, Jim Brown <[hidden email]> wrote:

> On 5/22/2014 8:50 AM, Hans J Rasmusen OZ7BQ wrote:
>> If you want to avoid the double slashes // in callsigns, you have to use the standard N1MM key commands and a Keying interface like WinKeyer USB.
>
> Does the KX3 not support CW via DTR?
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
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Pete Smith N4ZR

Re: N1MM and keying KX3. What happens to the slashes // Solved

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I understand that the KX3 does not have the K-3's built in CW and PTT
interfaces on the RS-232 port, but it is really trivial to take off the
DTR and RTS lines from the RS-232 cable and through a couple of
one-transistor, one-resistor interfaces to the appropriate ports

73, Pete N4ZR
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On 5/22/2014 11:50 AM, Hans J Rasmusen OZ7BQ wrote:

> Thanks for the response. The solution is simple. N1MM appears no to support the KX3 (K2 and K3) Command Set in full.
> If you want to avoid the double slashes // in callsigns, you have to use the standard N1MM key commands and a Keying interface like WinKeyer USB. More to carry if you go portable, but may be easier if you participate in a CW contest.
>
> 73 and enjoy the forthcoming WPX CW contest.
> OZ7BQ Hans Jørgen (Joe).
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Jim Brown-10

Re: [KX3] N1MM and keying KX3. What happens to the slashes // Solved

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On 5/22/2014 10:03 AM, Alan Hawrylyshen wrote:
> There’s no DTR. It is a 3 line / RX/TX/GND interface…. so it seems that DTR based CW is out of the question.

Yeah, I thought of that after posting. :) It does seem, though, that it
ought to be practical to take DTR from a real serial port or a USB to
DB9 serial adapter and feed that to the KX3. I think that precludes
using a paddle though. Wayne -- is there something you can do about this?

73, Jim K9YC
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Jim Brown-10

Re: N1MM and keying KX3. What happens to the slashes // Solved

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On 5/22/2014 12:51 PM, Pete Smith N4ZR wrote:
> I understand that the KX3 does not have the K-3's built in CW and PTT
> interfaces on the RS-232 port, but it is really trivial to take off
> the DTR and RTS lines from the RS-232 cable and through a couple of
> one-transistor, one-resistor interfaces to the appropriate ports

Yes, I've built several of them. The tricky part, though, is
simultaneously interfacing a paddle to send fills.

73, Jim K9YC
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Ross Primrose

Re: N1MM and keying KX3. What happens to the slashes // Solved

All it takes is a Y-adapter....

73, Ross N4RP

On 5/22/2014 4:29 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
>
> Yes, I've built several of them. The tricky part, though, is
> simultaneously interfacing a paddle to send fills.
>

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Nr4c

Re: [KX3] N1MM and keying KX3. What happens to the slashes // Solved

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I had a friend (Dino KL0S) wire this up with two transistor switches in a DB-9 shell. Makes the KX3 look like a K3 to n1mm.

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> On May 22, 2014, at 4:27 PM, Jim Brown <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
>> On 5/22/2014 10:03 AM, Alan Hawrylyshen wrote:
>> There’s no DTR. It is a 3 line / RX/TX/GND interface…. so it seems that DTR based CW is out of the question.
>
> Yeah, I thought of that after posting. :) It does seem, though, that it ought to be practical to take DTR from a real serial port or a USB to DB9 serial adapter and feed that to the KX3. I think that precludes using a paddle though. Wayne -- is there something you can do about this?
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
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Nr4c

Re: N1MM and keying KX3. What happens to the slashes // Solved

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Simple two by two tenth inch plugs wired to a 3.5mm inline jack for front paddle plug. Pinout on Fred's book.

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...nr4c. bill

> On May 22, 2014, at 4:29 PM, Jim Brown <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
>> On 5/22/2014 12:51 PM, Pete Smith N4ZR wrote:
>> I understand that the KX3 does not have the K-3's built in CW and PTT interfaces on the RS-232 port, but it is really trivial to take off the DTR and RTS lines from the RS-232 cable and through a couple of one-transistor, one-resistor interfaces to the appropriate ports
>
> Yes, I've built several of them. The tricky part, though, is simultaneously interfacing a paddle to send fills.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
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Don Wilhelm-4

Re: N1MM and keying KX3. What happens to the slashes // Solved

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A way to simultaneously interface a paddle and computer to the KX3 --

The KX3 has two paddle inputs - one in the front for the KXPD3 and the
other on the left end.
They can independently be set to either Hand or Paddles. Yes, if you
want to use the front one with anything other than the KXPD3, you will
have to create an adapter. Several suggestions on how to accomplish
that can be found in the archives.
So you can end up with one input for the computer generated code and
another for paddles.

73,
Don W3FPR

On 5/22/2014 4:29 PM, Jim Brown wrote:

> On 5/22/2014 12:51 PM, Pete Smith N4ZR wrote:
>> I understand that the KX3 does not have the K-3's built in CW and PTT
>> interfaces on the RS-232 port, but it is really trivial to take off
>> the DTR and RTS lines from the RS-232 cable and through a couple of
>> one-transistor, one-resistor interfaces to the appropriate ports
>
> Yes, I've built several of them. The tricky part, though, is
> simultaneously interfacing a paddle to send fills.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
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