Wayne (and Gary)
I hope you and Gary will reconsider adding Ultimatic/Single Lever Paddle support to the K3 internal keyer. I think that more than Don, Dave and myself would welcome that addition to the K3. The elegance of the K3, a rig that rivals and even surpasses many of the very high end radios, is diminished by the need to use an external keyer to use a mode that many find invaluable. Removing the need to add another piece of gear to the table top is not a minor inconvenience. The small size of the K3 seems to be an attempt to make it convenient for field/portable use and to then require another piece of gear to make it work seems to diminish its attempt to reach that goal. Jack, AE6GC, KX1 1403, K3 1433 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Ferrington, M0XDF Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2008 11:20 AM To: wayne burdick Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Elecraft Reflector; DOUGLAS ZWIEBEL Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 Keying - minority opinion? I have to say I'm hoping that by the time it matters to me, Elecraft will have implemented Ultimatic, otherwise I can see myself buying a WKUSB or K12-EXT and fitting it into the K3 somewhere. I realise that your're busy Wayne and this is probably quite a way down on your list, but please consider implementing Ultimatic, perhaps in place of Iambic if you have space issues and can give people the choice at f/w upgrade time? 73 de M0XDF, K3 #174 -- Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe. -Galileo Galilei, physicist and astronomer (1564-1642) On 6 Sep 2008, at 14:33, Don Wilhelm wrote: > Doug, > > All is well that Iambic B meets your needs, but it is not for > everyone, even though we may be the minority. I need either a > single lever paddle with an Iambic only keyer or Ultimatic mode and > a dual lever paddle to send decent CW. > The problem with dual paddles is that I squeeze too often and end up > generating garbage. And that nasty Iambic B mode sends out the > 'extraneous' extra element at the end! > Ultimatic mode makes sense to my mind - I close the dash paddle and > out comes dashes, close the dot paddle and out comes dots. The last > paddle activated gets priority. It allows the insertion of one or > more dots (dashes) in a string of dashes (dots) as well. It makes > sense to my mind - the paddle that I close last is what is produced. > > I know there are not many users of this mode today, mainly because > the popularity and convenience of the Curtis keyer chip and a few > others encouraged the world to Iambic long ago. Ultimatic was the > original keyer mode and was the main thing available back in the > '50s and '60s. It is just more natural to me than those alternating > dots and dashes. > > Those who must do 'slap' keying or must use a single lever paddle > with an Iambic keyer might want to try Ultimatic mode - it is > available in some of the K1EL keyers (the K12 is one) as well as > several others (but no internal keyers that I am aware of). > > > Ultimatic users 'stand up' and request that it be added to the K3 > internal keyer! Wayne did give a strong 'maybe' when I asked. _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ 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
