I good friend has kindly lent me his K3. I have noticed that the cw weight changes inversely proportional to the speed setting -- just as it does on my old K2. The timing sounds decent below about 35 wpm, but once the speed gets to around 40 wpm, the weight becomes very light, and the keying sounds like it's being generated by a poorly adjusted bug.
I connected up an oscilloscope to monitor the keying envelope while sending a string of dits, and it's easily seen that at slower speeds the dit length is greater than the space between dits. At around 35 wpm, this reverses and the dit length becomes progressively shorter than the space between dits. I would expect that regardless of speed, the dit length should equal the length of time between dits. Or, at least the ratio should remain constant, and a function of the weight setting. I also tried to key the radio using an external Logikey K-3 keyer which *does* maintain a constant and equal dit-to-space ratio throughout its range, but the K3 still shortens the dits as speed is increased. Is there any way to fix this? 73, Dale WA8SRA ______________________________________________________________ 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
