Yes and this is how I would like to operate. But I'm unable to get the memory keyer in my K1 to call CQ in that fashion. That way I feel rude when I switch to talking that way after someone has replied to my CQ. Maybe that person answered my CQ because I was calling at a very nice slow character speed and the faster character speeds messes him up? That just makes me feel in polite and as slow as I am I try to be as polite as possible cause anyone talking to me is being very patient and helping me out.
There are quite a few people who will respond to my really slow CQ's quite quickly then when I can't copy and ask them to QRS they say they have to go and leave faster than I can copy but you always hear that dit dit at the end then poof they're gone. I don't want to get lumped in with this group. Hopefully some day I'll improve and it won't be that big of a deal but for now sending farnsworth give me time to think and it would just be nice if the memory keyer would send more in a style like I'd like to during the QSO simply out of courtesy to other hams. When I'm scanning the bands if I hear a CQ even slower than I'd like to go (for character speed) I'll still slow down as far as my keyer will let me (or turn it off and go straight key) to try and match how the person is caling CQ. Its just like when you go to someones house that takes their shoes off at the door. When in Rome... ~Brett On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 13:27 +0000, Dave G4AON wrote: > Hi Brett > > The way I guess almost all of us operate on CW when in "normal QSO mode" > is to pace the transmission even though the actual keyer speed may be > higher than we are really sending, this is especially the case for > complicated words, and doesn't need a menu item to use it. If something > is likely to be difficult to receive, e.g. keyer is a KX3567Z you might > add a question mark after the Z and repeat it, however using full > break-in also allows the other station to interrupt by sending a string > of dots to get your attention if they missed something. It's all a > matter of confidence, which only comes with practice... There is no > substitute for getting on the air and operating. > > 73 Dave, G4AON > K3/100 #80 > ============= > ~Brett (KC7OTG) > - Have a menu item for farnsworth sending. You set it to 0 for normal > operation (as the rig does now) and set it to anything between 0 and the > current speed setting minus 1 to get farnsworth spacing. > _______________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > 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 _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net 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
