Yay! I second that motion, Don! I've been a fan of Ultimatic mode since it first came out in QST as a vacuum tube keyer from a W6 in the mid-50s. Later I built the transistorized version that was in QST in the early 60s. But nothing's as easy as building a WinKeyer kit with it in it! Steve did all the heavy lifting.
Ultimatic mode also includes dot or dash "insertion". Make a "Q", for instance, by holding the dash lever closed through the entire character formation and flick the dot lever after the start of the second dash to insert the single dot. It's nice to have the K3's built-in keyer when going portable. But -- like Don -- I have a lot of trouble using the Iambic algorithms with dual-lever paddles, so at the home station I use a WK2 and when I'm traveling I use a single-lever paddle. Bud, W2RU On Aug 10, 2012, at 10:21 AM, Don Wilhelm <w3...@embarqmail.com> wrote: > Ultimatic is an absolutely wonderful keying mode (and the only one I can > use with dual lever paddles). It gives priority to the last paddle closed. > In other words, close the dah lever, and you get dahs - but then close > the dot lever, and you then get dots even though both paddles are now > closed. > No alternating nonsense. > > 73, > Don W3FPR > > On 8/10/2012 9:49 AM, Ignacy wrote: >> You write "K3 keyer does not provide all of the functionality of the WinKey, >> a case in point being the Ultimatic keying mode". What is this mode? >> ______________________________________________________________ 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
