K3: CW decoder

[Dave, G4AON]

Hi Brett

The way I guess almost all of us operate on CW when in "normal QSO mode"
is to pace the transmission even though the actual keyer speed may be
higher than we are really sending, this is especially the case for
complicated words, and doesn't need a menu item to use it. If something
is likely to be difficult to receive, e.g. keyer is a KX3567Z you might
add a question mark after the Z and repeat it, however using full
break-in also allows the other station to interrupt by sending a string
of dots to get your attention if they missed something. It's all a
matter of confidence, which only comes with practice... There is no
substitute for getting on the air and operating.

73 Dave, G4AON
K3/100 #80
=============
~Brett (KC7OTG)
- Have a menu item for farnsworth sending. You set it to 0 for normal
operation (as the rig does now) and set it to anything between 0 and the
current speed setting minus 1 to get farnsworth spacing.
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[Brett Howard]

Yes and this is how I would like to operate.  But I'm unable to get the
memory keyer in my K1 to call CQ in that fashion.  That way I feel rude
when I switch to talking that way after someone has replied to my CQ.
Maybe that person answered my CQ because I was calling at a very nice
slow character speed and the faster character speeds messes him up?
That just makes me feel in polite and as slow as I am I try to be as
polite as possible cause anyone talking to me is being very patient and
helping me out.  

There are quite a few people who will respond to my really slow CQ's
quite quickly then when I can't copy and ask them to QRS they say they
have to go and leave faster than I can copy but you always hear that dit
dit at the end then poof they're gone.  I don't want to get lumped in
with this group.  Hopefully some day I'll improve and it won't be that
big of a deal but for now sending farnsworth give me time to think and
it would just be nice if the memory keyer would send more in a style
like I'd like to during the QSO simply out of courtesy to other hams.
When I'm scanning the bands if I hear a CQ even slower than I'd like to
go (for character speed) I'll still slow down as far as my keyer will
let me (or turn it off and go straight key) to try and match how the
person is caling CQ.  Its just like when you go to someones house that
takes their shoes off at the door.  When in Rome...

~Brett

On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 13:27 +0000, Dave G4AON wrote:

> Hi Brett
>
> The way I guess almost all of us operate on CW when in "normal QSO mode"
> is to pace the transmission even though the actual keyer speed may be
> higher than we are really sending, this is especially the case for
> complicated words, and doesn't need a menu item to use it. If something
> is likely to be difficult to receive, e.g. keyer is a KX3567Z you might
> add a question mark after the Z and repeat it, however using full
> break-in also allows the other station to interrupt by sending a string
> of dots to get your attention if they missed something. It's all a
> matter of confidence, which only comes with practice... There is no
> substitute for getting on the air and operating.
>
> 73 Dave, G4AON
> K3/100 #80
> =============
> ~Brett (KC7OTG)
> - Have a menu item for farnsworth sending. You set it to 0 for normal
> operation (as the rig does now) and set it to anything between 0 and the
> current speed setting minus 1 to get farnsworth spacing.
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[Chris Kantarjiev K6DBG]

My K1 is a few hours' drive away, so I can't test it, but my K2
already does Farnsworth recording. That is, when I record a message
buffer, it tracks the spacing between characters as part of
the memorization process. I just tried this with big gaps and it
works a treat.

Brett - try it on your K1 and see what happens. I bet you can come
up with something that works for you. I recorded big gaps with
the keyer set at 18 and turned it up to 30wpm and still get
(relatively) big gaps.

73 de chris K6DBG
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