[Fwd: Re: Dumb user mistake - slow transition between Tx and Rx]

[Ken Wagner K3IU]

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Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Dumb user mistake - slow transition between Tx
and Rx
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2009 07:35:36 -0500
From: Ken K3IU <[hidden email]>
To: Dick Dievendorff <[hidden email]>
References: <[hidden email]>
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I had that problem, also, on several occasions. I attributed it to
switching problems in my brain, but I WILL check the CW macros for
ending spaces. Thanks, Dick!
73, Ken K3IU
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Dick Dievendorff wrote:

> I noticed that I was sometimes losing the first character when people
> responded to my CQ messages.  The receiver seemed slow to come back to full
> sensitivity after transmit.
>
> I thought about this for a while, then I went to my recorded CW messages and
> removed the trailing blank I sometimes insert because I have in the past
> wanted to chain messages.  The trailing blank caused N1MM/Winkey to hold
> down the PTT for that extra character time.  When I removed the trailing
> blanks from my recorded CW messages the return-to-receive was a lot
> snappier...
>
> Dick, K6KR
>  

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