On 8/30/2012 9:01 AM, Igor Sokolov wrote: > First, in my experience 8msec delay is THE ONLY point if we speak > about TX delay. Any setting above 8 msec makes CW choppy.
That is certainly true with QSK and QRO. I like to run QRO as much as the next guy, BUT many EU contesters work too fast for conditions much of the time. Our path is over the polar region, so Arctic flutter is quite common here to much of EU. When that's happening, I often have to listen to a call for as along as a minute to figure out who it is! I'm far more likely to let the other station continue CQing and call someone else. (I can't usually run EU from my QTH in CA -- east coast stations are much louder). > This subject was discussed here some time ago. It has been checked > here on 4 different K3s and they are all the same. You are right -- it's the nature of the design. > > Second, I do not insist on anything. I have just expressed my wish to > have configurable TX delay in highly configurable K3. Having said > that, I am afraid your statistics is not applicable to the majority of > SO2R stations that I know and practically all the MS stations that I > know. Even most of the SO1R stations here prefer using PTT in the > contests. Please go back and look at the SUBJECT line in this thread. It is about DIGITAL MODES. :) We're talking RTTY, PSK, FSK, JT65, Olivia, etc. The only one of those that is a contesting mode is RTTY. I use VOX for all of them, with no issues, because I don't have any gear with slow relays. > Actually I am really curious what percentage of contest stations use > break in regularly in the contests. That might be a good question for > a poll in "cq contest" reflector. I'm an OT, primarily a CW op since 1955, and until about five years ago I worked almost entirely full QSK. But I got tired of replacing the vacuum relays in my Titans every few years, so since five years I do all my contesting "semi-breakin" using the Titans at full legal power, and my casual operating with my KPA500 full QSK. 73, Jim K9YC ______________________________________________________________ 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
