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Chad Wasinger

Remote power on/off progress for K3

Hi Group, Been searching the mailing list for a solution to turn on/off my K3 remotely via Ham Radio Deluxe or another means. Looks like there has been some posts on using serial activity as a trigger to turn on the radio. Just wondering if there has been any progress in this area or if someone has a simple solution? I'm not sure how Kenwood does it on their ts-2000 but the remote on/off feature is pretty smooth via HRD. Suggestions? Thanks, Chad N0YK
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Jim Rhodes-2

Re: Remote power on/off progress for K3

You need to provide a way to ground pin 5 on the aux connector. I do this
with a remoterig interface. Any remote relay will work. This turns on the
rig then the rig stays on even if the closure is momentary. To turn it off
you need to send it the power down command via the command serial port. A
macro within HRD will do this easily. The DC out jack on the K3 can then
power a relay to turn on accessories.

On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Chad Wasinger <[hidden email]>wrote:

> Hi Group, Been searching the mailing list for a solution to turn on/off my
> K3 remotely via Ham Radio Deluxe or another means. Looks like there has
> been some posts on using serial activity as a trigger to turn on the radio.
> Just wondering if there has been any progress in this area or if someone
> has a simple solution? I'm not sure how Kenwood does it on their ts-2000
> but the remote on/off feature is pretty smooth via HRD. Suggestions?
> Thanks, Chad N0YK
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Iain MacDonnell - N6ML-2

Re: Remote power on/off progress for K3

Actually it's pin 8, not 5. I use the DTR line on a COM port, with a
transistor level converter (identical to the simple FSK RTTY
interface[1]), to trigger it, with custom software. For testing
purposes, Hercules[2] is quite handy.

[1] http://www.aa5au.com/rttyinterface.html
[2] http://www.hw-group.com/products/hercules/index_en.html

73,

~iain / N6ML

On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 12:52 AM, Jim Rhodes <[hidden email]> wrote:

> You need to provide a way to ground pin 5 on the aux connector. I do this
> with a remoterig interface. Any remote relay will work. This turns on the
> rig then the rig stays on even if the closure is momentary. To turn it off
> you need to send it the power down command via the command serial port. A
> macro within HRD will do this easily. The DC out jack on the K3 can then
> power a relay to turn on accessories.
>
> On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Chad Wasinger <[hidden email]>wrote:
>
>> Hi Group, Been searching the mailing list for a solution to turn on/off my
>> K3 remotely via Ham Radio Deluxe or another means. Looks like there has
>> been some posts on using serial activity as a trigger to turn on the radio.
>> Just wondering if there has been any progress in this area or if someone
>> has a simple solution? I'm not sure how Kenwood does it on their ts-2000
>> but the remote on/off feature is pretty smooth via HRD. Suggestions?
>> Thanks, Chad N0YK
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Chad Wasinger

Re: Remote power on/off progress for K3

Thanks for the feedback. I want something simple, so hopefully the FSK will
work for me.

Merry Christmas!
Chad
N0YK

-----Original Message-----
From: iain macdonnell - N6ML
Sent: Tuesday, December 25, 2012 4:00 AM
To: Jim Rhodes
Cc: Chad Wasinger ; [hidden email]
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Remote power on/off progress for K3

Actually it's pin 8, not 5. I use the DTR line on a COM port, with a
transistor level converter (identical to the simple FSK RTTY
interface[1]), to trigger it, with custom software. For testing
purposes, Hercules[2] is quite handy.

[1] http://www.aa5au.com/rttyinterface.html
[2] http://www.hw-group.com/products/hercules/index_en.html

73,

~iain / N6ML

On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 12:52 AM, Jim Rhodes <[hidden email]> wrote:

> You need to provide a way to ground pin 5 on the aux connector. I do this
> with a remoterig interface. Any remote relay will work. This turns on the
> rig then the rig stays on even if the closure is momentary. To turn it off
> you need to send it the power down command via the command serial port. A
> macro within HRD will do this easily. The DC out jack on the K3 can then
> power a relay to turn on accessories.
>
> On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Chad Wasinger
> <[hidden email]>wrote:
>
>> Hi Group, Been searching the mailing list for a solution to turn on/off
>> my
>> K3 remotely via Ham Radio Deluxe or another means. Looks like there has
>> been some posts on using serial activity as a trigger to turn on the
>> radio.
>> Just wondering if there has been any progress in this area or if someone
>> has a simple solution? I'm not sure how Kenwood does it on their ts-2000
>> but the remote on/off feature is pretty smooth via HRD. Suggestions?
>> Thanks, Chad N0YK
>> ______________________________________________________________
>> Elecraft mailing list
>> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft
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>>
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>>
>
>
>
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