Re: [Bulk] Re: [Elecraft] OT: foot switch - why?

2008-03-22 Thread John Payne
On Friday 21 March 2008 16:58, Bill W5WVO wrote: All good reasons. My #1 reason, though, is that I've never used a VOX that didn't suck. How about the fact that a foot switch leaves both hands free? I once worked as a mobile phone/paging/answering service operator, and let me tell

Re: [Bulk] Re: [Elecraft] OT: foot switch - why?

2008-03-21 Thread Darrell Bellerive
Bingo! In the analog world getting a VOX to work properly was a difficult task. It required an audio delay line. In todays DSP world VOX should be perfect. The problem is that there are no minimum standards for a VOX. People got used to VOX's that took a half second or more of audio to