LS, I think you have discovered a bug that had not been seen before. I took the liberty of forwarding it to Wayne and Lyle.
73, Don W3FPR lstavenhagen wrote: > Hi all, > > I finally found something goofy in my K3 that may or not be a bug (questions > below). CW-to-data can go into a confused state with imperfect keying. I > noticed this yesterday during a PSK QSO using my paddles for transmit. > Towards the end of a QSO, when I was sending rather poorly, hi hi, the rig > suddenly exitted transmit and the sidetone became a continuous tone. I > tapped the dit paddle and all was restored and I continued on. > > Later I tried it into my dummy load to troubleshoot if it was just RF > getting into the rig. I did find eventually that I was able to reproduce the > behavior pretty consistently by sending a random series of dits/dahs into it > without a break. I.e. in iambic mode, hold both paddles together (send > aaaaa...), then release the dit paddle (tttttt), release the dah paddle > (eeeeeee)... pretty soon the rig gets confused - the behaviors I've seen are > exiting transmit with a continuous sidetone, exiting transmit with a > continuous set of dits going on with no sidetone. > > Hitting the paddle always seems to bring it back. > > One possibility is that I'm inadvertently sending a known command to the > encoder in the mess of dits and dahs and it's trying to do the right thing > in the middle of it all. > > So my questions would be: > - are there 'hidden' commands to the encoder available in CW (i.e. like 'IM' > to immediately switch to RX) and if so what would they be? > - if I'm not just confusing it due to my own incompetence, is this an actual > known problem? > > This mode does seem to work fine as long as your keying is spot on, so it's > not a huge concern. But it is a little strange to me to be able to confuse > it like this... > > Tnx es 73, > LS > W5QD > ______________________________________________________________ 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
