K3 Annoying diddle in RTTY

[Joe Stofko-2]

I love teletype... played with it over 30 years ago... well before the K3!
I think that the ability to use the K3 Utility program in terminal mode
to effect true FSK is a great feature...   I made some Q's this weekend
during the contest and had a great time of it... except for the 5 second
idle time that appears to be non-controlable. It is most annoying to me...
and, probably, the stations I worked in the contest, to have to sit and
wait for the transmission to cease. I know that in the CW to RTTY
mode, the text string IM can be sent to immediately exit to receive mode
but this is kinda kludgy, in my opinion, when operating with the keyboard
to have to reach over and send IM with the paddles. The terminal in the
utility
program has a radio button for TRANSMIT that changes to STOP
once in the transmit mode... but pressing it... or hitting CTRL-T
does nothing to promote quick exit to receive mode. We seem to be stuck
with that idle time, no matter what.  Now, I may have missed
something somewhere that allows the user to switch immediately
from TX to RX ...   otherwise, if there are others who are bothered
by this ... can we ask that a future firmware release might address
this??   I know that I could avoid this by switching to AFSK and using
audio cables with the sound card.... but, I much prefer the simpler
approach to plain old FSK...  and it seems a shame that the K3 firmware
coupled with the terminal in the utility program doesn't have this feature.
If I DID happen to overlook something in the manual, pointing me to the
information would be most appreciated !

Happy New Year to all... 73,
Joe - W1AIU

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[Don Wilhelm-4]

Joe,

The immediate stop *WAS* present in K3 Utility - either CTRL-T, or the
ESC key or click on the STOP button.  Are you up to date on your version
of K3Utility or are you using an old version - the EOT function was
added in version 1.1.10.17.  I am certain Dick would like to know if it
is no longer functioning.

73,
Don W3FPR

Joe Stofko wrote:

> I love teletype... played with it over 30 years ago... well before the
> K3!
> I think that the ability to use the K3 Utility program in terminal mode
> to effect true FSK is a great feature...   I made some Q's this weekend
> during the contest and had a great time of it... except for the 5 second
> idle time that appears to be non-controlable. It is most annoying to
> me...
> and, probably, the stations I worked in the contest, to have to sit and
> wait for the transmission to cease. I know that in the CW to RTTY
> mode, the text string IM can be sent to immediately exit to receive mode
> but this is kinda kludgy, in my opinion, when operating with the keyboard
> to have to reach over and send IM with the paddles. The terminal in
> the utility
> program has a radio button for TRANSMIT that changes to STOP
> once in the transmit mode... but pressing it... or hitting CTRL-T
> does nothing to promote quick exit to receive mode. We seem to be stuck
> with that idle time, no matter what.  Now, I may have missed
> something somewhere that allows the user to switch immediately
> from TX to RX ...   otherwise, if there are others who are bothered
> by this ... can we ask that a future firmware release might address
> this??   I know that I could avoid this by switching to AFSK and using
> audio cables with the sound card.... but, I much prefer the simpler
> approach to plain old FSK...  and it seems a shame that the K3 firmware
> coupled with the terminal in the utility program doesn't have this
> feature.
> If I DID happen to overlook something in the manual, pointing me to the
> information would be most appreciated !
>
> Happy New Year to all... 73,
> Joe - W1AIU
>

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[Joe Stofko-2]

Holy you-know-what! Don... thank you and a thousand
pardons to you and all others... I had updated the utility
program... BUT, not on the computer I was using !!  
That's what happens when you work in IT and have
way too many PC's at home... 2 in the shack...
That's also what happens when you get old!...  
Pardon me while I go bury my head in the sand...

and, thanks again, Don....

Sheesh,  how embarassing...
73,
Joe -W1AIU
 
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