Posted: 1/4/2015 12:24:16 PM EDT
| The ARRL RTTY roundup is going on now. I fired up the KX3 and turned on the auto decode. Man, this is stupid simple. I'm getting tons of stations streaming by on 10 meters. One was IK8UND Italy and another was EA1APM in Spain. If you have a KX3 and haven't tried RTTY this is a good chance. |
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I had to get out the manual, but I got it going now. OK, now how about working somebody ? Back to the manual. You can send RTTY with a set of paddles using morse and it will translate/encode/send it for you. It's not super fast, but it is a neat feature if you need to keep perephals down...and just to play with. 
Though you could just hook up a smartphone and set up some macros with ease as I found out recently when I gave KX3Companion a try. |
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Yeah, I am not going to do that. I think I tried to work someone on PSK like that one time. Its kinda clumsy.
The problem I am having is trying to figure out what I did with the cable to go from the ACC1 port to my PC 
But you did remind me of something: I wonder if I can use my Piglet for this ? Again, back to the manual. |
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Do you have the tuning aid on? If not try it, like shooting fish in a barrel. I think foxxz built a serial interface that you plugged a USB keyboard into one side and the other side into the KX3s key jack. I don't remember what he did with it though. I'm not sure if I had the tuning aid on or not. Is that the centering meter function where you look at the lines on each side? I would like to hear more about the keyboard interface too! |
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I'm not sure if I had the tuning aid on or not. Is that the centering meter function where you look at the lines on each side? I would like to hear more about the keyboard interface too! Quoted:
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Do you have the tuning aid on? If not try it, like shooting fish in a barrel. I think foxxz built a serial interface that you plugged a USB keyboard into one side and the other side into the KX3s key jack. I don't remember what he did with it though. I'm not sure if I had the tuning aid on or not. Is that the centering meter function where you look at the lines on each side? I would like to hear more about the keyboard interface too! Its one of my many projects that stalled out. I took a arduino pro mini, added a usb interface to it to plug in a keyboard, and interface it to the KX3s serial port. You can type and have the KX3 send the text via its digital modes without using the paddles to key in via morse code. Its capable of macros and extracting a calling stations callsign from the KX3s decode. If theres interest from some people I will finish it up and post the code, parts, and wiring diagram - I think its about $50 of parts. The arduino interface should be able to operate ~24 hours continuously on 3x AA batteries depending on the power requirements of the keyboard (usually <50ma). |
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Its one of my many projects that stalled out. I took a arduino pro mini, added a usb interface to it to plug in a keyboard, and interface it to the KX3s serial port. You can type and have the KX3 send the text via its digital modes without using the paddles to key in via morse code. Its capable of macros and extracting a calling stations callsign from the KX3s decode. If theres interest from some people I will finish it up and post the code, parts, and wiring diagram - I think its about $50 of parts. The arduino interface should be able to operate ~24 hours continuously on 3x AA batteries depending on the power requirements of the keyboard (usually <50ma). Quoted:
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Do you have the tuning aid on? If not try it, like shooting fish in a barrel. I think foxxz built a serial interface that you plugged a USB keyboard into one side and the other side into the KX3s key jack. I don't remember what he did with it though. I'm not sure if I had the tuning aid on or not. Is that the centering meter function where you look at the lines on each side? I would like to hear more about the keyboard interface too! Its one of my many projects that stalled out. I took a arduino pro mini, added a usb interface to it to plug in a keyboard, and interface it to the KX3s serial port. You can type and have the KX3 send the text via its digital modes without using the paddles to key in via morse code. Its capable of macros and extracting a calling stations callsign from the KX3s decode. If theres interest from some people I will finish it up and post the code, parts, and wiring diagram - I think its about $50 of parts. The arduino interface should be able to operate ~24 hours continuously on 3x AA batteries depending on the power requirements of the keyboard (usually <50ma). Great idea, I might do the same. I have a couple of Teensy boards that have native USB support and support keyboard interfaces already. I suppose a guy could even add an LCD to display the parsed out information so you aren't stuck trying to read the display on the radio which gets covered during volume changes. I would envision this as a project box with an LCD and ports for the keyboard and radio. |
Another option for keyboard:
I just got my wife's old Droid 3 and was thinking about using it to run KX3 Companion that I talked about in this thread: KX3 Companion I suppose that another option would be to use a newer phone with a Bluetooth keyboard if you want a physical keyboard. 
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