On Sun, 2007-12-30 at 22:49 +0000, G3SJJ wrote: > I didn't say contest loggers! Logger32 incorporates Winkey support. The > point I was making is that these days most people go for Winkey in one > way or another. Here I have the mHam Keyer which is built around WinKey > for its CW keying, and also the little WinKeyer USB for portable work.
I don't have a winkeyer nor have I ever used one but looking at the manual on Microham's website, it seems to me that this keyer is actually huge step backwards compared to the Logikey keyers if a versatile Keyer in the absence of a windows PC is required. The winkeyer appears to be primarily a method of allowing good keying from a PC with some standalone keyer features added. My logikey keyer runs for literally years on 3 AAA batteries, is small enough to take anywhere and has access to all it's functions via 4 built in buttons Perhaps I am missing a few things here but the missing features in the winkey based keyers would seem to me to be in (no particular order ) Limited ability to program directly from the key (I.e no editing or delete features) and no embedded commands in messages No support for macros (I use these all the time) Limed range of keyer styles (and only selectable from software) No banked memories ( use different banks for HF & 6 for example) casual contest features built into the keyer (serial number and a way to easily decrement the serial #) Built in buttons Ability to set side-tone pitch, Keying compensation etc (including compensation for Icom's dot shortening in QSK) from the paddles Size you can read the cmos4 manual here http://www.idiompress.com/CMOS-docs.html#4 73 Brendan EI6IZ -- Don‘t complain. Nobody will understand. Or care. And certainly don‘t try to fix the situation yourself. It‘s dangerous. Leave it to a highly untrained, unqualified, expendable professional. _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
