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About the K3 cw speed

AD4C2009
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
 
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Re: About the K3 cw speed

Steve Ellington
"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
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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

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limits".. -- Albert Einstein



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Re: About the K3 cw speed

Andrew Moore-3
>> "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.....

Same here. For a high speed op, 50 can be limiting (such as built-in top
speed on the K2). With external keying the K2 can do about 70 but I'd love
to see that built into the K2.  Plenty high speed ops out there -- FOC,
FISTS, CFO...

We all have our wish lists though; no disrespect to the K2/K3 and all the
engineering and budgeting decisions that undoubtedly went into them.
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Re: About the K3 cw speed

DK4XL
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Hi AD4C,

for you, a speed limitation at 50 wpm might be enough, for me it would
be a very nice addition to be able to key with more than 60 wpm.

And maybe you didn't see the smiley at the end of my remark. I am more
than happy with my K3, and I can easily plug in an external keyer to be
able to use this perfect cw trabsceiver in the speed range that I "need".

It is nothing than a wish... and I should be allowed to have those wishes.

Martin
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Re: About the K3 cw speed

Joe Planisky
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Back on April 15, 2009, Wayne asked for volunteers to field test a  
high speed CW firmware mod (up to 120 WPM with an external keyer.) Did  
that not make it into a beta release?  I've not paid attention since  
I'm far from taxing the built in keyer.

73
--
Joe KB8AP


On Jul 30, 2009, at 9:15 AM, Steve Ellington wrote:

> "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

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Re: About the K3 cw speed

Steve Ellington
I believe you are referring to the addition to the weight menu item in
config. You can choose between old and new versions. It has no effect on the
cw character distortion I'm referring to. CW sent at over 40 wpm by an
external source comes out with varying dit and dah lengths and irregular
element spacing due to sluggish switching. At 65 wpm you can record and play
your transmission back at 32 wpm and easily hear what I am talking about.
Instead of the perfectly formed characters normally produced by a keyboard,
it comes out sounding like a BUG. You can hear this without actually
transmitting by using test mode and listening to the sidetone. However,,,,if
you push the XMIT button, all is well and cw sounds fine.
Steve
N4LQ
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> Back on April 15, 2009, Wayne asked for volunteers to field test a  high
> speed CW firmware mod (up to 120 WPM with an external keyer.) Did  that
> not make it into a beta release?  I've not paid attention since  I'm far
> from taxing the built in keyer.
>
> 73
> --
> Joe KB8AP
>
>
> On Jul 30, 2009, at 9:15 AM, Steve Ellington wrote:
>
>> "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
>

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Re: About the K3 cw speed

P.B. Christensen
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> Back on April 15, 2009, Wayne asked for volunteers to field test a
> high speed CW firmware mod (up to 120 WPM with an external keyer.) Did
> that not make it into a beta release?  I've not paid attention since
> I'm far from taxing the built in keyer.

As I recall, that update primarily relates to PTT CW, where the XMIT
function is engaged for such devices as contest keyers.  When using PTT
keying, the K3 is capable of blistering fast CW.  OTOH, the K3 presently
hits a wall at roughly 45-50WPM in QSK and SEMI modes where element spacing
accuracy suffers.  I've confirmed N4LQ's observations.

Overall, I think K3 keying has improved with time.  CW rise/fall is now
about 2.5 ms and under the "OLD" QSK menu, the RF envelope starts ~ 13 ms
after key closure.  It's a bit longer under the "NEW" menu configuration and
a bit more "K" compensation is required with an external keyer in that mode.
The faster slope rise/fall was achieved without a perceptible increase in
keying bandwidth.  That was quite an accomplishment.

Paul, W9AC


 

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Re: About the K3 cw speed

Jorge Diez - CX6VM
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What´s the CW speed for the internal keyer on the K3?.

Sure if I buy a K3 I will don´t be happy to spend many thousand $$$ in a
radio to use an external keyer.!

It´s possible with the K3 internal keyer, to use both keyboard and paddles
when for example you are using contest software? (Win-Test)

Thanks,
Jorge
CX6VM


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Hi AD4C,

for you, a speed limitation at 50 wpm might be enough, for me it would be a
very nice addition to be able to key with more than 60 wpm.

And maybe you didn't see the smiley at the end of my remark. I am more than
happy with my K3, and I can easily plug in an external keyer to be able to
use this perfect cw trabsceiver in the speed range that I "need".

It is nothing than a wish... and I should be allowed to have those wishes.

Martin
DK4XL
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Re: About the K3 cw speed

Brett Howard
Max speed is 50WPM and yes there are two separate jacks in the back one for
paddles and a separate Key input for your contest software.

~Brett (KC7OTG)

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What´s the CW speed for the internal keyer on the K3?.

Sure if I buy a K3 I will don´t be happy to spend many thousand $$$ in a
radio to use an external keyer.!

It´s possible with the K3 internal keyer, to use both keyboard and paddles
when for example you are using contest software? (Win-Test)

Thanks,
Jorge
CX6VM


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Hi AD4C,

for you, a speed limitation at 50 wpm might be enough, for me it would be a
very nice addition to be able to key with more than 60 wpm.

And maybe you didn't see the smiley at the end of my remark. I am more than
happy with my K3, and I can easily plug in an external keyer to be able to
use this perfect cw trabsceiver in the speed range that I "need".

It is nothing than a wish... and I should be allowed to have those wishes.

Martin
DK4XL
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Re: About the K3 cw speed

AD4C2009
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"With external keying the K2 can do about 70 but I'd love to see that built into the K2.  Plenty high speed ops out there -- FOC, FISTS, CFO"
 
True,there are dozen good high speed ops that can receive up to and over 70 wpm like friend of mine in Miami who can copy and type 75 wpm but how many of them will be able to TRANSMITT 70 wpm with his fist and a paddle ? Sure NONE.!
So what's the point of having a TX speed over 50 unless you wanted to do a real messy transmission at 70.
 
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Re: About the K3 cw speed

Jorge Diez - CX6VM
 
During a contest where the exchange report is the same (cqww) sometimes ops
transmit the exchange at higher speed than the other parts of the qso, not
sure, but i´m afraid is over 50 wpm. So the K3 will not do that?.

73,
Jorge
CX6VM


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"With external keying the K2 can do about 70 but I'd love to see that built
into the K2.  Plenty high speed ops out there -- FOC, FISTS, CFO"
 
True,there are dozen good high speed ops that can receive up to and over 70
wpm like friend of mine in Miami who can copy and type 75 wpm but how many
of them will be able to TRANSMITT 70 wpm with his fist and a paddle ? Sure
NONE.!
So what's the point of having a TX speed over 50 unless you wanted to do a
real messy transmission at 70.
 
AD4C

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engineering and budgeting decisions that undoubtedly went into them.




     
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Re: About the K3 cw speed

AD4C2009
NO way Jorge,yes and no,in contests certainly the fastest ops send their numbers  at higher speed but its not 50 as you think,otherwise lots of ops won't be able to copy anything in a crowded band full of QRM,the standard is between 35 and 40 wpm which is very confortable for all contesters.
 
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During a contest where the exchange report is the same (cqww) sometimes ops
transmit the exchange at higher speed than the other parts of the qso, not
sure, but i´m afraid is over 50 wpm. So the K3 will not do that?.

73,
Jorge
CX6VM


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"With external keying the K2 can do about 70 but I'd love to see that built
into the K2.  Plenty high speed ops out there -- FOC, FISTS, CFO"
 
True,there are dozen good high speed ops that can receive up to and over 70
wpm like friend of mine in Miami who can copy and type 75 wpm but how many
of them will be able to TRANSMITT 70 wpm with his fist and a paddle ? Sure
NONE.!
So what's the point of having a TX speed over 50 unless you wanted to do a
real messy transmission at 70.
 
AD4C

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engineering and budgeting decisions that undoubtedly went into them.




     
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Re: About the K3 cw speed

DK4XL
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... but how many of them will be able to TRANSMITT 70 wpm with his fist and a paddle ? Sure NONE.!


Now I'm pretty sure that you don't know enough from this part of the cw world.

Everybody takes the cw transmissions of the german ham DF4KV as computer made -
but he uses an old Vibrokeyer to produce the by far best and fastest cw you can imagine.

You should not judge about things you are not too deeply involved in.
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Re: About the K3 cw speed

Alan Bloom
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> True,there are dozen good high speed ops that can receive up to
> and over 70 wpm like friend of mine in Miami who can copy and
> type 75 wpm but how many of them will be able to TRANSMITT 70

Many years ago, a friend was listening to a couple of the QRQ boys on
the low end of 40 meters having at it at 70 wpm.  Chuck recorded them on
the reel-to-reel tape recorder at 7-1/2 inches per second and later
played them back at half speed.  He said that during the entire QSO
neither one of them ever got the other's callsign correct.  :=)

Al N1AL


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Re: About the K3 cw speed

Andrew Moore-3
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> ... but how many of them will be able to TRANSMITT 70 wpm with his fist
and
> a paddle ? Sure NONE.!

Right.  We need to differentiate between internal and external keying here.

The problem really isn't 50 WPM on an internal keyer while using a paddle --
I agree it's rare (but not impossible) that an operator could key
proficiently beyond 50. It has been done, but it's rare.

To clarify, the limit is the 50 (or 70, or whatever) when keying the rig
EXTERNALLY.  That is, for example, when setting the K2 to "input method =
straight key" (can't recall exactly how the menu text phrases it) and using
an external keyboard to send at anything higher than 70 WPM.  The rig just
can't handle it.

So yes, 50 WPM on the "keyer" knob, fine by me.

That said, I love the K2.
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Re: About the K3 cw speed

k6dgw
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Alan Bloom wrote:

> Many years ago, a friend was listening to a couple of the QRQ boys on
> the low end of 40 meters having at it at 70 wpm.  Chuck recorded them on
> the reel-to-reel tape recorder at 7-1/2 inches per second and later
> played them back at half speed.  He said that during the entire QSO
> neither one of them ever got the other's callsign correct.  :=)

Many believe that marine radiotelegraphy back in the "good old days" was
moderately high speed.  In fact, it wasn't at all.  We ran our wheel at
18WPM which is what W1AW uses for bulletins I think.  All the operator
afloat had to be able to copy was our and his call signs.  He could look
the QSX up.  Traffic was essentially always handled slower ... 15WPM or
below.  Press was normally sent at 18-20, it didn't require letter
perfect copy.  Fists afloat ranged from pretty good to totally awful.

Vibroplexes were notoriously hard to slow down to the common speeds.
See radiomarine.org/historic-5.html for one ingenious example.

50WPM is fast enough for me.

73,

Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 2009 Cal QSO Party  3-4 Oct 2009
- www.cqp.org
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Re: About the K3 cw speed

Fred Atchley
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Fred wrote:

 

>50WPM is fast enough for me.

 

20WPM is fast enough for me Fred. CU in October for the CQP.

 

73 (Wow, we must be the same age too. just kidding) Fred, AE6IC

 

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Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:
 > but they were operators on some rare, private, closed circuit

[Apologies to all for this off-topic rambling]

I was the R/O on the SS Tampa Bay (KNJA), one of the last of the US Flag, all
CW, banana boats.  Most of the US Flag ships had long since gone to SITOR or
INMARSAT -- we had neither.  I used to work WLO every day as we plied the
waters of South America and Africa.

We handled all traffic at speeds between 25 and 30 WPM and it was rare for a
fill either direction.  And since we both had full QSK and knew how to use it,
fills were nearly instantaneous.  I don't know but I suspect the WLO guys were
using electronic keyers -- I know I was.  (I still use that keyer, a Wm. M.
Nye ESK-001 that has keyed everything I've ever plugged it in to.)

It was my very strong preference to always send my traffic through WLO because
they were quick and efficient.  Plus, I could hit them from *anywhere* in the
Pacific or Atlantic on 12 or 16 MHz.

WLO                  KNJA
==================   ==================
Sending wheel CQ     "WLO"
"DE"                 "KNJA"
"UP"                 DIT
QSY to working frequency and handle traffic.

There was one incident where we were in heavy seas and I couldn't even stay
seated in the chair.  Anyway, I kept making mistakes and finally stopped and
apologized to the op at WLO.  He came back with something along the lines of
"you've got the best fist we work".

Now, I'm not *that* great of an op so his comment inspired me to listen to
some of the other ships WLO was working -- I do not know how the guys at WLO
could even copy them.  I could only decipher about a quarter of what they were
sending.  It was the worst CW I've ever heard and I've *never* heard CW that
bad on the ham bands..

I tell you this: those guys at WLO were incredible ops!

73,
-Doug, W7KF

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