Actually computers generate probably 98% of the code during so called
radio contests. During a contest weekend it is not at all unusual for
individuals to make thousands of contacts. Computers automate the
drudgery of sending your call thousands of times and most exchanges.
However even during these contests, the manual key has to sometimes be
used to provide corrections or handle situations not covered by "canned"
messages.
Because of the tremendous adjacent and even on frequency interference,
computers have proved incapable of decoding code with the accuracy and
speed of a human in real time.
Brian
On 7/26/2013 22:04, Bob Camp wrote:
Hi
There's also the time honored approach of generating the side tone off of the
generated RF. In that case the latency to the transmitter would matter quite a
bit. I have no idea *why* you would run the key through a computer in that case
….
Bob
On Jul 26, 2013, at 4:52 PM, Jim Lux <jim...@earthlink.net> wrote:
On 7/26/13 12:50 PM, Didier Juges wrote:
There is a difference between managing the latency (as in ensuring that sound
and video are synchronized, but latency itself is acceptable) and minimizing
the latency as in a Morse code keyer where the operator has to manually control
the generation of elements that can be as narrow as 20mS (one dit at 60 words
per minute) while getting timely aural feedback. That means you need the sound
to start and stop within less than about 5 mS following the key closing and
opening.
It is trivial to do on a microcontroller running at 1MHz but surprisingly
harder to do on a 2GHz Windows machine.
It is not just a matter of time stamping the key closure, you have to get the
sound system starting and stopping.
Yep. although, since the propagation path is on the order of 100 milliseconds,
providing feedback to the user directly from the interface works quite well
(e.g. generating tones directly from the keying).
The challenge is trying generate the sidetone through Windows. But really, there's no
reason why you can't have a "keying box" that provides the direct side tone and
sends the events to the host computer. Then the issue is more about keeping constant
latency (or else the CW will be really, really hard to copy)
It's not like an extra 10 milliseconds of delay between keying and the emitted
RF waveform makes any difference at the other end.
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