I don't agree. With ORQ off, once you exceed about 35 wpm it is not OK
with TX DELAY at 8 ms either. I'm not a perfectionist, it sounds awful.
Brian is correct that it doesn't matter whether you are using the
internal keyer or an external paddle or keyboard, as long as you are
using either semi- or full QSK.
Fred, I'm willing to bet that you have your WinKey USB set up to control
the PTT -- or maybe you have a foot switch. You are not using either
semi-QSK or full QSK. That is why you don't have the problem.
Try this: make sure you are using either full or semi-QSK. Turn on QRQ
mode and send some V's at about 40 wpm. It should sound fine. Then hit
RIT and send a few more. You'll see.
On 4/12/2014 3:56 PM, Brian Alsop wrote:
Not quite so. Increase your TX DLY to 25 ms and listen to your CW.
At 8ms (default), it behaves as you say. Significantly higher values
cause QSD. It doesn't matter if you're using the internal keyer or an
external keyer.
73 DE Brian/K3KO
On 4/12/2014 22:35, Fred Jensen wrote:
On 4/12/2014 1:07 PM, David Cole wrote:
Could you expand a bit on the choppy CW thing? I am a new K3 person,
and I just bought my K3. All this talk about choppy CW makes me a bit
apprehensive. If I use a normal Vibroplex iambic paddle, and send well
am I going to have a problem, or is this something about using the KBD
option?
Short answer: No and you can stop being apprehensive about it. :-)
You will plug in your paddle [and/or external keyer and/or computer],
and you will be sending clickless CW with full-QSK. Had the subject not
come up [again] on this email list, the odds that you'd ever encounter
and notice its effects are vanishingly small unless you are a 60+ WPM
full QSK operator. I operate in a lot of CW contests with N1MM driving
a WinKeyUSB at between 30 and 35 WPM, KPA500, full QSK, QRQ option off.
No one has ever given me a QSD. When I've specifically asked friends
[good CW ops] to evaluate my keying, they tell me it's great. My "fist"
is another matter of course. :-)
It's another example of how you have to filter a list like this one. The
variety of K3 owners is vast, and some push the limits in various ways
and at those limits, they start seeing things the vast majority of us
never do or ever will. They tend to discuss them here, which is fine.
Those using the K3 as the IF for transverters up to the microwave ranges
are very concerned about frequency stability, and often discuss it on
this list too. Your K3 will be rock-solid for you on HF, no need for
apprehension over that either.
73,
Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 2014 Cal QSO Party 4-5 Oct 2014
- www.cqp.org
--
73,
Vic, K2VCO
Fresno CA
http://www.qsl.net/k2vco/
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