K3: Duration of button press 'beep' varies

[Andrew Moore-3]

On my K3/100, firmware 4.05, I've noticed some odd behavior with the audio
confirmation beeps depending on how long I hold or tap a button.

if I tap a button "normally" -- which I'd describe as a very brief hold-down
on the button -- the length of the confirmation beep tone is consistent.

If I tap a button as briefly as possible -- i.e. punch it and release, with
no dwell time in the pressed position -- the confirmation beep tone is
sometimes lengthened.

It's inconsistent.

One of the most prominent examples is when I have noise reduction (NR)
engaged and I tape the A/B button (alt function on keypad "1").  The
confirmation tone is often drawn out for a relatively long time.

I don't think this is a huge problem, but it's strange behavior.  I'd expect
a confirmation beep to be consistent, rather than dependent on the manner or
context in which a button is pressed.

Has anyone else noticed it?

--Andrew, NV1B
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[W5UXH]

I suspect I have.  Several times I was caught off guard by what I was hearing and I believe it was a longer tone from the confirmation beep.  I think it was when toggling back and forth between CW-nor and CW-rev for zero beating (SPOT doesn't get close enough for me most of the time) so I was confused between the toggling tones of the incoming signal and the unexpected behavior of the confirmation beep.  Since then I have turned off the beep.  

Chuck, W5UXH

Andrew Moore-3 wrote

On my K3/100, firmware 4.05, I've noticed some odd behavior with the audio
confirmation beeps depending on how long I hold or tap a button.
..........
Has anyone else noticed it?

--Andrew, NV1B

[Chester Alderman]

I use an old windows utility named TUNEWIN. I run LINE OUT to my PC sound
card and configure TUNEWIN so it is very small in physical size (so it
doesn't interfere with my logging or contesting program monitor space) and
you can customize it's audio Fc and audio BW to whatever sidetone frequency
you desire. With this I can exactly zero beat a QSO and I have been using
this utility for several years. I have found that CWT, when a signal is
tuned correctly, will agree exactly with what is showing in TUNEWIN and
(almost) exactly with what is being displayed on my P3 with the SPAN set to
+/- 5kc.

Since the minimum CW bandwidth can be set only as narrow as 50 cycles, I
think the CWT zero beat accuracy is certainly what is called 'good enough
for government work'!

Tom - W4BQF


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I suspect I have.  Several times I was caught off guard by what I was
hearing
and I believe it was a longer tone from the confirmation beep.  I think it
was when toggling back and forth between CW-nor and CW-rev for zero beating
(SPOT doesn't get close enough for me most of the time) so I was confused
between the toggling tones of the incoming signal and the unexpected
behavior of the confirmation beep.  Since then I have turned off the beep.  

Chuck, W5UXH


Andrew Moore-3 wrote:

>
> On my K3/100, firmware 4.05, I've noticed some odd behavior with the audio
> confirmation beeps depending on how long I hold or tap a button.
> ..........
> Has anyone else noticed it?
>
> --Andrew, NV1B
>
>
>

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