"..--" is easily remembered if you think of it as ".." followed by "--", or IM, for IMmediately terminate transmission.
We put the nominal delay at 4 seconds to give the operator time to think during longer transmissions. You can always use what Linguistics majors call a hesitation form (what we call "BT", or "-...-". 73, Wayne N6KR On Apr 13, 2014, at 6:14 AM, Sam Morgan <[email protected]> wrote: > *warning* insufficient caffeine levels > do not attempt to address keyboard.... > > what Don said IM ..-- not MI --.. > sigh gonna be a long morning > > On 4/13/2014 8:01 AM, Sam Morgan wrote: >> with the key sending --.. will shorten the diddle at the end >> with the keyboard sending | the pipe key shift / will also work >> >> >> On 4/13/2014 7:38 AM, Howard Sherer wrote: >>> When using my K3 to send RTTY via the keyer paddle there is a long delay >>> of about 4 sec after sending the last character for the receiver to >>> return while you continue to transmit additional spaces. Is their a menu >>> command to greatly shorten this 4 sec return to receive delay? >>> >>> Howard AE3T >> >> > > -- > GB & 73 > K5OAI > Sam Morgan > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 > Message delivered to [email protected] ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to [email protected]
