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Georgek5kg

Use of K3 voice keyer

My K3's voice keyer works great. I use the K3 with a CM500 boom
mic/headset. When transmitting a recorded voice message, any slight touch, bump, or
noise on the mic will stop the message. Is there a way to prevent a noise
or bump to the mic from stopping the message (other than not bumping or
making a noise on the mic, of course)?

Also, is there a way to key the messages from an external key pad, kinda
like the iMate is for the Icom 756Pro radios?

73, George

George Wagner, K5KG
Sarasota, FL
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Gary Hinson

Re: Use of K3 voice keyer

Hi George.

Sounds to me like you are using VOX, and it is too sensitive. Try turning
VOX off (e.g. press a PTT footswitch when you want to transmit live audio -
the voice keyer automagically asserts PTT when triggered for the duration of
the message) or at least turning down the VOX sensitivity.

73
Gary ZL2iFB

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>
> My K3's voice keyer works great. I use the K3 with a CM500 boom
> mic/headset. When transmitting a recorded voice message, any slight
touch,
> bump, or noise on the mic will stop the message. Is there a way to
prevent a
> noise or bump to the mic from stopping the message (other than not
> bumping or making a noise on the mic, of course)?
>
> Also, is there a way to key the messages from an external key pad, kinda
like

> the iMate is for the Icom 756Pro radios?
>
> 73, George
>
> George Wagner, K5KG
> Sarasota, FL
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Mike Clarke-5

Re: Use of K3 voice keyer

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Hi George,

Being terminally lazy, I too tired of reaching all the way over
to the radio when I wanted to trigger the voice keyer! To solve
the problem (as well as the more serious irritation of losing
audio for a fraction of a second when I tap the PTT to cancel
message playback) I've made a custom PTT controller using a Wii
nunchuk and an arduino that talks to the K3 over serial.

There are a couple of blog posts on it here:

http://clarkema.org/posts/2011-12/2011-12-20-arduino-rig-control.html
http://clarkema.org/posts/2012-01/2012-01-05-arduino-rig-control.html

It's all very rough at the moment, buut I've been using it on air
since the beginning of the year and been delighted with it.
Indeed, I've found that the ease of triggering playback has
changed the whole way I use the voice keyer.

I'm hoping to be able to publish a more polished version of the
setup including serial pasthrough when I get back to the UK; but
the basic hard-coded version is fairly straightforward to
implement if you have access to an Arduino and something you want
to use as a controller.

73,

--
Mike, M0PRL / VP8DMH

On 22/Jan 22:40, [hidden email] wrote:

> Also, is there a way to key the messages from an external key pad, kinda
> like the iMate is for the Icom 756Pro radios?
>
> 73, George
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Nr4c

Re: Use of K3 voice keyer

Since you can access the M1-M4 buttons for 'playback' from N1MM for CW
messages, I assume it (N1MM) could playback the M1-M4 DVR messages as
well. I think it just sends the EPL macro as ascii text over the serial
line.

...bill nr4c

On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:19:01 +0000, Mike Clarke wrote:

> Hi George,
>
> Being terminally lazy, I too tired of reaching all the way over
> to the radio when I wanted to trigger the voice keyer! To solve
> the problem (as well as the more serious irritation of losing
> audio for a fraction of a second when I tap the PTT to cancel
> message playback) I've made a custom PTT controller using a Wii
> nunchuk and an arduino that talks to the K3 over serial.
>
> There are a couple of blog posts on it here:
>
> http://clarkema.org/posts/2011-12/2011-12-20-arduino-rig-control.html
> http://clarkema.org/posts/2012-01/2012-01-05-arduino-rig-control.html
>
> It's all very rough at the moment, buut I've been using it on air
> since the beginning of the year and been delighted with it.
> Indeed, I've found that the ease of triggering playback has
> changed the whole way I use the voice keyer.
>
> I'm hoping to be able to publish a more polished version of the
> setup including serial pasthrough when I get back to the UK; but
> the basic hard-coded version is fairly straightforward to
> implement if you have access to an Arduino and something you want
> to use as a controller.
>
> 73,
>
> --
> Mike, M0PRL / VP8DMH
>
> On 22/Jan 22:40, [hidden email] wrote:
>
>> Also, is there a way to key the messages from an external key pad,
>> kinda
>> like the iMate is for the Icom 756Pro radios?
>>
>> 73, George
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N7US

Re: Use of K3 voice keyer

True, and DXLab's WinWarbler works too.

73, Jim N7US

-----Original Message-----

Since you can access the M1-M4 buttons for 'playback' from N1MM for CW
messages, I assume it (N1MM) could playback the M1-M4 DVR messages as well.
I think it just sends the EPL macro as ascii text over the serial line.

...bill nr4c

On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 14:19:01 +0000, Mike Clarke wrote:

> Hi George,
>
> Being terminally lazy, I too tired of reaching all the way over to the
> radio when I wanted to trigger the voice keyer! To solve the problem
> (as well as the more serious irritation of losing audio for a fraction
> of a second when I tap the PTT to cancel message playback) I've made a
> custom PTT controller using a Wii nunchuk and an arduino that talks to
> the K3 over serial.
>
> There are a couple of blog posts on it here:
>
> http://clarkema.org/posts/2011-12/2011-12-20-arduino-rig-control.html
> http://clarkema.org/posts/2012-01/2012-01-05-arduino-rig-control.html
>
> It's all very rough at the moment, buut I've been using it on air
> since the beginning of the year and been delighted with it.
> Indeed, I've found that the ease of triggering playback has changed
> the whole way I use the voice keyer.
>
> I'm hoping to be able to publish a more polished version of the setup
> including serial pasthrough when I get back to the UK; but the basic
> hard-coded version is fairly straightforward to implement if you have
> access to an Arduino and something you want to use as a controller.
>
> 73,
>
> --
> Mike, M0PRL / VP8DMH
>
> On 22/Jan 22:40, [hidden email] wrote:
>
>> Also, is there a way to key the messages from an external key pad,
>> kinda like the iMate is for the Icom 756Pro radios?
>>
>> 73, George

Mike Clarke-5

Re: Use of K3 voice keyer

In theory of course it can be done from any logging program that
lets you send macros to the radio. All you need to do is emulate
button presses, which is exactly what I do with the Arduino. I
just prefer having a physical controller.

--
Mike, VP8DMH

On 23/Jan 08:50, Jim McDonald wrote:

> True, and DXLab's WinWarbler works too.
>
> 73, Jim N7US
>
> -----Original Message-----
>
> Since you can access the M1-M4 buttons for 'playback' from N1MM for CW
> messages, I assume it (N1MM) could playback the M1-M4 DVR messages as well.
> I think it just sends the EPL macro as ascii text over the serial line.
>
> ...bill nr4c