I love teletype... played with it over 30 years ago... well before the K3!
I think that the ability to use the K3 Utility program in terminal mode
to effect true FSK is a great feature... I made some Q's this weekend
during the contest and had a great time of it... except for the 5 second
idle time that appears to be non-controlable. It is most annoying to me...
and, probably, the stations I worked in the contest, to have to sit and
wait for the transmission to cease. I know that in the CW to RTTY
mode, the text string IM can be sent to immediately exit to receive mode
but this is kinda kludgy, in my opinion, when operating with the keyboard
to have to reach over and send IM with the paddles. The terminal in the
utility
program has a radio button for TRANSMIT that changes to STOP
once in the transmit mode... but pressing it... or hitting CTRL-T
does nothing to promote quick exit to receive mode. We seem to be stuck
with that idle time, no matter what. Now, I may have missed
something somewhere that allows the user to switch immediately
from TX to RX ... otherwise, if there are others who are bothered
by this ... can we ask that a future firmware release might address
this?? I know that I could avoid this by switching to AFSK and using
audio cables with the sound card.... but, I much prefer the simpler
approach to plain old FSK... and it seems a shame that the K3 firmware
coupled with the terminal in the utility program doesn't have this feature.
If I DID happen to overlook something in the manual, pointing me to the
information would be most appreciated !
Happy New Year to all... 73,
Joe - W1AIU
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