It's all relative. QRQ means, simply, "Shall I send faster?", nothing more, just as QRS means, simply, "Shall I send slower?"
Obviously we've adapted those Q-codes in various ways, but they're meaning is still relative unless a specific number is added, e.g. "QRQ to 70 WPM" or "QRS to 30WPM" Ron AC7AC -----Original Message----- Last time I looked at Waddle K. Knowitall's Authoritative Real Meanings Dictionary, 70 wpm, indeed 50 wpm was QRQ all the way. If you want QSK, you should set the TX DLY to minimum 8 and leave it there forever. I don't like the way it behaves at higher delays anyway. If you want to keep RX from opening in certain contesting situations, do it with the logging program and it's PTT setting and pipe the logger supplied PTT signal around. You will find that your 9500 and the K3 are slick together. You CAN use the CW+ fast QSK, but this is a fight in the K3 against RX-TX-RX transition tasks. e.g. CPU time in the firmware, and in order to be really fast some functions are disabled. You will need to decide if the disabled functions are things you can do without. 73, Guy. On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 11:08 PM, Tommy Alderman <alderm...@windstream.net> wrote: > I suspect my days of QRQ are about over as right now I'm doing pretty good > to copy at just 70 wpm! > > My primary interest is getting 'smooth' full QSK at contesting speeds, i.e., > 26 to 36 wpm. If I can get that, then I'll be happy. I did drop TX DLY from > 20 down to 8 and with the K3 barefoot, it sounds pretty darned good. In the > morning I will try this with the Alpha 9500 amp; every time I try it (on > 20m), many Eu stations want a 'QSO'. Anyway I am getting close, both at 30 > wpm and I just tested with TX DLY set for 8, and at 60 wpm it sounds good. > > Tom - W4BQF This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
