The keyer in the TS-870 is a Logic Keyer (K1). You could buy a Logic Keyer and probably some emulation that fits you better.
The keyer in the K3 is as good as I've seen. I understand it emulates the Curtis keyer which is my favorite. I've had the TS-870 and many others and I find them all easy to use up to my limit of coordination about 35 wpm then I start making mistakes. The only internal keyer I couldn't use was the one in the Omni 6. It could be that you are sensitive to sidetone delay or echos in the room. Have you tried using headphones? Steve N4LQ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wes Stewart" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]>; "Barry" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 11:01 AM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] CW keyer issues In answer to your last two comments, yes and yes. Although I passed a 20 wpm test in front of an FCC examiner, I'll confess to not being much of a CW op. Nevertheless, with my TS-870 and its built-in Accukeyer I send nearly flawless CW. With the K3---well if I haven't programmed the message with the utility, I don't send it. I suppose it's me, but I thought the object of electronic keyers was to improve sending, not make it worse. So I have what is arguably the finest CW rig around and what do I do with it? I took up RTTY. Overly harsh? Perhaps, but it seems like this is something that could be fixed in software. That's the point of SDR, right? Wes N M S W S.....N 7 W S --- On Mon, 9/20/10, Barry <[email protected]> wrote: > For many years, I've used the > Island keyer II (in CMOS Superkeyer III > emulation mode), the CMOS Superkeyer III, and prior to that > the VVF > Accu-keyer. > > I find with the K3 keyer, I tend to miss trailing dits, > particularly > with iambic character like C, presumably due to differences > in timing, > such as the dot memory. I guess the solution is going > back to my > external keyer. Wonder if many others have had this > experience? > > Barry W2UP > > -- ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] 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:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
