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- Page 1 © 2004 All rights reserved micro KEYER microHAM fax. +421 2 4594 5100 e-mail : support@microham.com homepage : www.microham.com release 1.0...
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Page 2: Table Of Contents
© 2004 All rights reserved TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Chapter Warranty ......................Packing ......................Important warnings .................... Quick start ......................Parameters ......................Requirements ....................Features and functions ..................Principle of operation ..................Panel description .................... -
Page 3: Warranty
© 2004 All rights reserved 1. WARRANTY microHAM offers for this product 3 years time warranty and 30 day full money back less shipping. The product must not be modified in any way, except configuration, otherwise the warranty voids. -
Page 4: Packing
© 2004 All rights reserved 2. PACKING The product includes micro KEYER™, USB cable 1pc, sound card cables 3pcs, microHAM USB Device Router program on a CD-ROM. Please check the content of the shipment against this list. If the shipment is incomplete, please contact us at the following address: support@microham.com... -
Page 5: Important Warnings
© 2004 All rights reserved 3. IMPORTANT WARNINGS NEVER FORGET !!! If you plan to use micro KEYER with more than one and not identical transceivers ALWAYS change original microphone plugged to the micro KEYER RJ45 jack BEFORE changing DB37 RADIO cable If you power micro KEYER from external power supply ALWAYS check polarity of the external 13.8 V supply... -
Page 6: Quick Start
You should see tab with micro KEYER statement with yellow X mark Plug audio cables to the sound card and to the micro KEYER rear panel jacks. Computer Line Out to micro KEYER Line Out, computer Line In to MK Line In and computer Mic In to MK Mic In. -
Page 7: Parameters
© 2004 All rights reserved 5. PARAMETERS USB: USB 2.0 Full speed , USB 1.1 compatible Power consumption: USB side - up to 100mA; Transceiver side up to 200mA at 13.8V (max. 16V) Radio Port: RXD, TXD, (RTS, CTS) max. 19200 Bd... -
Page 8: Features And Functions
- optical isolation of ALL digital signals -> Radio Control, CW, 2xPTT, FSK, PA from USB port Compatible with most standard MS Windows based logging or control software - special microHAM "USB Device Router" program creates as many virtual COM ports as needed for full functionality with your favorite programs... -
Page 9: Principle Of Operation
PTT outputs and works as a CW memory keyer. If computer equiped with Windows OS is connected and "microHAM USB Device Router" program is running, MK works as before plus as an Interface. It transfers all digital and analog signals generated by computer logging program to the transceiver and back. -
Page 10: Panel Description
© 2004 All rights reserved 9. PANEL DESCRIPTION All connectors for connecting computer, radio and accessories are situated on the rear panel of MK. Rear Panel (1) - RADIO DB37F connector for radio interconnections. Detailed description you can find at Appendix A (2) - RE/SS Output keying mode switch for PA output. - Page 11 © 2004 All rights reserved (5) - USB USB B connector for computer connection. Standard USB A-B cable can be plugged here. (6) - MIC EXT 3.5mm (1/8") connector for external microphone input. TIP - Microphone input RING - NC SHELL - Microphone Ground Note: When is plugged, RJ45 microphone input is muted, but all microphone controls (buttons) works.
- Page 12 © 2004 All rights reserved Front Panel (1) - SPEED CW Keyer Speed knob. Ranges (MIN, MAX) are defined by software (2) - CW/FSK LED RED color indicates when CW keying line is active GREEN color indicates when FSK keying line is active...
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Page 13: Installation And Conections
Run "urouter_release_xx_xx.exe" (xx_xx is version) from CD to start the installation. If a VCP driver of a microHAM USB interface was previously installed, installer will launch "FTDI Uninstaller" before finishing the installation. If you want to keep using VCP drivers of USB interfaces, choose cancel button. - Page 14 © 2004 All rights reserved connect these leads to power supply +13.5 and GND terminals. Take care of polarity. 7. Turn transceiver power supply and transceiver ON. Within 2 seconds green FSK LED shortly blink. It means that the all MK parameters has been loaded from its memory and MK is ready to operate.
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Page 15: Audio Settings
© 2004 All rights reserved 11. AUDIO SETTINGS There are three parts of audio settings: 1. Computer sound card mixer settings How the sound card is handled depends on logger programs capabilities. Some loggers can directly drive sound mixer controls and settings, several also in conjunction of current state of operation. In general keep... - Page 16 © 2004 All rights reserved transformer there is a small white "screw driver" trimmer. You can access this trimmer by a small hole located at the right side of the top cover. With this trimmer you can select a portion of the audio level from main MK front panel RADIO pot for radio MIC IN.
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Page 17: Usb Device Router
For example, USB interface has a simple page with only several controls that allows to associate the interface with virtual serial port(s). On the other hand, micro Keyer has more complex controls organized in several subpages that allows also to change keyer configuration. Device tab is created when a device is first time detected by router and remains in router even though device is disconnected. - Page 18 © 2004 All rights reserved Routing Once virtual ports are created they can by associated with some device channels (e.g. FSK channel in MK). Use subpage "Ports" of MK page or device page of USB interface for this purpose. These "routing" settings need to correspond to settings of logging software.
- Page 19 Any changes of these settings on subpages "Audio", "PTT/FSK", "CW/WinKey" are applied immediately to MK. Default settings stored in EEPROM are not altered in this way. It means that if micro Keyer will be next time powered without connection to computer it will use the old settings stored in EEPROM. To change these default settings use button "Store as Default"...
- Page 20 © 2004 All rights reserved To create, modify, rename or delete a preset use commands from menu "Preset". Number of presets is limited to twelve (12). There are several ways to apply some preset. You can use command from menu "Preset" where all created presets were added as menu item.
- Page 21 © 2004 All rights reserved C - Audio output from radio goes to sound card Line In. Audio output from computer is enabled and goes to radio front mic jack. Microphone is connected to the computer sound card mic jack.
- Page 22 © 2004 All rights reserved When foot switch is released there are several possibilities: Restore PTT and Audio = if checked, state of PTT from computer or WinKey will be copied to the PTT outputs by their settings. If not checked, PTT will not be applied until PTT from computer or WinKey will not be released.
- Page 23 © 2004 All rights reserved CW / WinKey In this tab you can configure internal CW keyer based on K1EL WinKey chip. Thanks to Steve, K1EL for the great product. Full WinKey manual is available at http://k1el.tripod.com/wkinfo.html. CW output is wired in parallel with CW output from computer.
- Page 24 You can select frequency of CW side tone generated by internal speaker. Side tone is generated by main micro KEYER CPU, not by pin.5 of WinKey. This pin is reserved always for the PTT or for second CW output for second radio. (Useful with feature SO2R Extension box).
- Page 25 © 2004 All rights reserved Set WPM = force WPM to selected speed regardless of position of speed knob Cancel WPM = cancel selected forced WPM Set Key = close CW output for selected time in seconds Set Wait = wait selected seconds during playback For looping or chaining messages the "Jump to"...
- Page 26 © 2004 All rights reserved Appendix A - DB37 Radio Connector Pin # Label Description Power +13.5V 12 - 16V DC input RS232 RTS RS232 radio port RTS output RS232 CTS RS232 radio port CTS input IF-FIF iface matrix*...