Aw come on....Turn the "weight" control up and your dahs get longer. The dits stay the same. This is RATIO, not weight. A weight control would make your dits shorter, lighter, less heavy. Just like changing the gap on a bug. The JA boys changed this back a few years ago and started calling weight ration. Any Curtis keyer has it right. The Idom Press keyers have it right as well as the K1EL series. All of this have real weight controls and some even have weight and ration controls. The ICOMs have ratio controls and they are useless. The correct ratio is 3:1 and should never vary. Steve Ellington [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vic K2VCO" <[email protected]> To: "Steve Ellington" <[email protected]> Cc: "David Windisch" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 1:32 PM Subject: Re: [Elecraft] [K3] Help with K3, TenTec TITAN amp, and QSK
> Steve Ellington wrote: >> 2 things: >> I see that the K3 can delay RF generation before keying the amp relay but >> what about, upon key up, delaying amp delay until RF ceases? How is this >> accomplished. Is it included? > > Yes, AMP KEY does not drop until after RF generation stops. I don't recall > how long the delay is. > >> 2. The K3's keyer is excellent but it's a ratio adjustment, not weight as >> indicated. The dit length or heaviness is non adjustable. This is like >> most JA rigs and is really strange. Why would anyone want long dahs like >> a bug? A real weight control shortens both dits and dahs equally and >> makes overall keying sound more choppy or heavier. Although the K3's >> weight is about right, some of us would prefer lighter weight for high >> speed and heavy weight for bad conditions. This goes way back to the >> early days of Morse. > > I don't think this is correct. I think it controls the dot:space ratio and > the dot:dash ratio is constant. In fact, I looked at it on the scope and > is is a weight control. > > > -- > 73, > Vic, K2VCO > Fresno CA > http://www.qsl.net/k2vco ______________________________________________________________ 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
