Re: [Elecraft] Long delay on RTTY sent with the paddle

2014-04-13 Thread David Cole
Oh... I have done CW too long... When I saw your "_..._", I had to think about what it was... As soon as I played it in my head, I knew... I have noticed that of late if folks ask me what a letter is, I have to think about it to give them the actual dot/dash code, but if I hear it, it is just

Re: [Elecraft] Long delay on RTTY sent with the paddle

2014-04-13 Thread Wayne Burdick
"..--" is easily remembered if you think of it as ".." followed by "--", or IM, for IMmediately terminate transmission. We put the nominal delay at 4 seconds to give the operator time to think during longer transmissions. You can always use what Linguistics majors call a hesitation form (what w

Re: [Elecraft] Long delay on RTTY sent with the paddle

2014-04-13 Thread Sam Morgan
*warning* insufficient caffeine levels do not attempt to address keyboard what Don said IM..--not MI --.. sigh gonna be a long morning On 4/13/2014 8:01 AM, Sam Morgan wrote: with the key sending--.. will shorten the diddle at the end with the keyboard sending | the pipe

Re: [Elecraft] Long delay on RTTY sent with the paddle

2014-04-13 Thread Sam Morgan
with the key sending--.. will shorten the diddle at the end with the keyboard sending | the pipe key shift / will also work On 4/13/2014 7:38 AM, Howard Sherer wrote: When using my K3 to send RTTY via the keyer paddle there is a long delay of about 4 sec after sending the last chara

Re: [Elecraft] Long delay on RTTY sent with the paddle

2014-04-13 Thread Don Wilhelm
Howard, No menu command, but send an "IM" character (no space, send as one 'letter') and transmission will stop as soon as that character is recognized. 73, Don W3FPR On 4/13/2014 8:38 AM, Howard Sherer wrote: When using my K3 to send RTTY via the keyer paddle there is a long delay of about

[Elecraft] Long delay on RTTY sent with the paddle

2014-04-13 Thread Howard Sherer
When using my K3 to send RTTY via the keyer paddle there is a long delay of about 4 sec after sending the last character for the receiver to return while you continue to transmit additional spaces. Is their a menu command to greatly shorten this 4 sec return to receive delay? Howard AE3T ___