Steve Ellington wrote: > 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 scope says otherwise. The K3 has a weight control. Dot:Dash ratio is constant. Dot:Space ratio is weight, and that's what the K3 weight control changes. > 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. I don't disagree that the Dot:Dash ratio should never change. I don't have an ICOM radio, so I can't tell you what it does, but I know the K3 changes the weight. The Idiom press keyers have two adjustments: Weight (W), which changes Dot:Space ratio as it should, and Keying Compensation (K), which lets you add a fixed amount to all keyed elements, to compensate for a fixed shortening in the radio. -- 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
