"the K3 has more than enough speed for any high or slow cw operator" I have to disagree: Or maybe it depends on what he is high on..... With an external keying source, keyboard or whatever, the K3 cannot send good code over 40 wpm. Don't believe me? Try recording it and playing it back. Wayne has some ideas to help and will get to it when he can. I have an old Jupiter that keys beautifully over 90 wpm. The problem with the K3 lies in the vco circuit so I'm told. Steve N4LQ [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hector Padron" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 12:07 PM Subject: [Elecraft] About the K3 cw speed
Martin,how many ops nowaday in contests or even dx work TX/RX over 30 wpm ? Almost none,how many roundtables you find nowaday with guys TX/RX over 50 wpm ? almost none,eventually you will find sometimes a reduced group of two or three guys sending over 60 wpm and most of them using keyboards and PC sofware to decode,so the K3 has more than enough speed for any high or slow cw operator. I am one of the few left old timers who still can copy with my ears up 65 wpm and send with my fist up to 60 but I never go that fast because can't find anyone to practice with,so I think Elecraft did a good job with the builtin keyer set to 50. I was in the field day recently and also in the last cw contest and could find anyone who could RX me when I was over 40 wpm,my speed was all the time no more than 30. Don't you realize that the CW spirit has been lost in the last years,haven't you see how few stations are using that mode ? I don't think we need more speed on the K3 AD4C "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits".. -- Albert Einstein ______________________________________________________________ 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 ______________________________________________________________ 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
