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Hardware, Cabling, Installations / K3 Twin - Keyer Decisions
« on: 2017-09-18, 22:36:20 »
I'm new to this group and to the RRC products. My intended use is CW contesting. The connection is via Ethernet (not internet) on a common LAN. Here's my question. My current station is set up to use a WinKeyer. The contest logging program (SkookumLogger on an iMac) tells the WinKeyer what to send and it in turn is connected to the Key In jack on the K3S. The key connects to the WinKeyer. Pretty vanilla set up.
Enter remote considerations. Should I use the WinKeyer emulator and hope that it is a faithful emulation? Or should I run my current WinKeyer into the Control RRC? The output of the WinKeyer would look like a straight key. I think I can set up the I/O lines to transfer the dits and dahs and eventually have the remote RRC send them to the remote K3S.
There seems to be much complexity to doing the latter. How do I gain access to the signal lines (I hate preparing cables)? Do I have the various I/O settings correctly set up? Or... using the builtin WinKeyer emulator will that emulator look EXACTLY like my current WinKeyer from the perspective of the software?
I'm seeking advice here. What do you all do? I've got lots of prewired cables here. Do you guys tap into them to access for example IN0?
Thanks and 73,
Gary W2CS
Enter remote considerations. Should I use the WinKeyer emulator and hope that it is a faithful emulation? Or should I run my current WinKeyer into the Control RRC? The output of the WinKeyer would look like a straight key. I think I can set up the I/O lines to transfer the dits and dahs and eventually have the remote RRC send them to the remote K3S.
There seems to be much complexity to doing the latter. How do I gain access to the signal lines (I hate preparing cables)? Do I have the various I/O settings correctly set up? Or... using the builtin WinKeyer emulator will that emulator look EXACTLY like my current WinKeyer from the perspective of the software?
I'm seeking advice here. What do you all do? I've got lots of prewired cables here. Do you guys tap into them to access for example IN0?
Thanks and 73,
Gary W2CS