I don't have a K3/0 yet, and need to make sure I can use it with Winkey. The internal keyer in the K3 would be fine, if only it supported AUTOSPACE. A lot of rigs have built in keyers, and to the best of my knowledge NONE support autospace. This is curious, as most DO support the ability to modify the dit/dah ratio so you can send mangled CW. Autospace enables sending perfect CW, which is not supported. I built my first autospaced keyer (WB4VVF) in the 70's, so doing without the feature is not an option because I send well ahead of the keyer. (Without the feature, my letters run together with very little space between and I sound horrible). I currently use a Winkeyer due to its integration with contest software.
I presume that the keyer built into Remote Rig doesn't support autospace either. I really hope I am wrong. I see where it's possible to connect a straight key or keyer to the Remote Rig port and override the built-in keyer. Need to make a special cable? Not a problem. My question is: What would I sound like at 30+ WPM? This has to do with how (or if) completed characters are passed along the TCP/IP connection. The Winkeyer can read ASCII characters from a PC and send them as dit and dahs, but we would be sending dits and dahs to Remote Rig, and it would be sending them to the station with a certain amount of latency. Is Remote Rig translating the dits and dahs into ASCII characters and sending them, or would we be sending the raw dits and dahs over TCP/IP, hoping for no distortion due to latency? Roy -- AD5Q ______________________________________________________________ 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
