Okay, so is it really time to upgrade my from my C64? Just kidding. I meant
to mention that the keying issue I noted was during a contest in October and/or
November using my work laptop, which is a P4-1000 to key my big rig. The
test last night was with my desktop which was running a P3-550, and I did have
lots of other things running in the background. But the results were the same.
Maybe I'll try another keying program and see what it does if I have time
tonight. Both compukers running W2kPro.
Does anyone know what rigs currently support the KY keying? I would bet that
if the S/W developers know how many rigs would benefit from the support rather
than Hey, I'd like it if you did this to support a feature in my K2. I
probably could list other folk that have some of those new Kenwoods (oops,
sorry, I shouldn't actually admit that I know people that don't use Elecraft
here, should I).
Okay, so far nobody has mentioned any logging programs that use the new KY
feature. Anyone?
Mark, NK8Q
Guys, Jim is correct. A PC running windows and most contest/ham
programs will key the K2 (or any other CW-capable rig) very nicely. But
only if the computer is fast enough to handle all its tasks AND the CW
functions as well. Don't expect an old slow Pentium 3 system to handle
it very well. I use a 1.7 GHz Celeron running N1MM logger with great
success (except for RFI problems...). If you are trying to do this with
a 350 MHz P3 system, then it is definitely time to trade up.
At the same time, it is good to bug the software authors to add support
for the K2's KY command. This command is also supported in newer
Kenwood transceivers, so adding it for us also gets a lot of other
rigs.
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