http://elecraft.85.s1.nabble.com/K3-Mic-up-down-buttons-tp2891198p2897819.html
desk (at 90-degrees from the desk) when contesting... this places the rig
turn 90-degrees (at least 45 deg. anyway) on order to adjust the VFO, or to
to remotely 'tune' the VFO... having the control right at or next to the
>I must be missing something here. For the life of my I can't figure why
>you would want to be changing frequency while transmitting CW (or any
>other mode)
>
>73 de Terry KK6T
>K3# 2965
>
>Bill W4ZV wrote:
> > One of our Field Testers has done this, but I would not be surprised to see
> > Elecraft eventually offer something similar as a standard product. Below
> > are the FT's comments (sans callsign) since I doubt he wants a lot of
> > queries about it.
> >
> > 73, Bill W4ZV
> >
> >
> > On 2008-12-13, at 13:30 , **** wrote:
> >
> >
> >> This is one for the lowest-priority end of the missing-feature list.
> >> I built a box with two pushbuttons wired to the DOWN and UP pins on the
> >> front panel MIC connector, to simulate a remote VFO A "knob." It works
> >> nicely: tap to step, hold to scan. But, taps while sending CW via KEY mess
> >> up the beautiful dots and dashes (dare I say: just like touching almost
> >> any control on an Orion II while sending :=). Strangely, holds do not
> >> affect the CW at all.
> >>
> >
> >
> > I've just interfaced the Griffin PowerMate "multimedia USB control knob"
> > with my Mac contest logging program (SkookumLogger). I use it in two modes,
> > controlling either the RIT/XIT offset or VFOA frequency. In either mode,
> > twirling the knob smoothly varies the K3 frequency at a reasonable rate for
> > tuning around a CW run frequency. There's a PowerMate-related issue that I
> > can live with: it operates by "pressing" command keys for you; if you twirl
> > the knob a lot it queues up all those "presses" and there is no way to stop
> > it from stubbornly playing back the complete queue.
> >
> > I've also got the PowerMate rigged to clear the offset (copies VFOB to VFOA
> > when controlling VFOA frequency). And one other gesture does a
> "Swap", which
> > is tough to explain in less than a paragraph.
> >
> > Changing the K3 frequency this way does *not* affect CW. I'm now a Happy
> > Ham, no longer waiting for the hoped-for K3 remote control unit :-)
> >
> >
>______________________________________________________________
>Elecraft mailing list
>Home:
http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft>Help:
http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm>Post: mailto:
[hidden email]
>
>This list hosted by:
http://www.qsl.net>Please help support this email list:
http://www.qsl.net/donate.html