keyer thread

[Steve Jackson-5]

I have used the Logikey for years.   Stated as simply
as possible, it's Elecraft-grade.  If you haven't used
one, your should try it.  I'd pay for an add-in of the
Logikey to the K2, were that possible.  Ideally,
taking the keyer function out of the main CPU would
free up code space for other functions.


               
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[David A. Belsley]

>  Ideally, taking the keyer function out of the main CPU would
> free up code space for other functions.

Fortunately, this idea is a non-starter.  Removing the internal keyer
from the K2 would obviously reduce the K2's portability significantly,
requiring one to take, and power, an additional box in /p operation.  
Bad idea.

Also, for what it's worth.  I've used both the Logikey and the K2
internal keyer, both now for a number of years.  Initially, I used the
Logikey attached externally, and I really didn't like the K2 internal
keyer, whose timing and response were sufficiently different from the
Logikey to cause me problems.  But I decided to make an effort to learn
the K2 keyer, precisely because I was not happy with the idea of having
to trek the Logikey around for portable use.  It actually didn't take
long to master the K2 internal keyer, although I found, rather
strangely, that I liked it in B mode better than A, which I had used
with the Logikey.  And -- once I had learned it, I found I preferred it
to the Logikey -- not just a little, but a lot.

best wishes,

dave belsley, w1euy

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[Hisashi T Fujinaka]

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, David A. Belsley wrote:

>
>>  Ideally, taking the keyer function out of the main CPU would
>> free up code space for other functions.
>
> Fortunately, this idea is a non-starter.  Removing the internal keyer from
> the K2 would obviously reduce the K2's portability significantly, requiring
> one to take, and power, an additional box in /p operation.  Bad idea.

Have you seen the size of tiny pic keyers nowadays? If the keyer had to
be taken out of the CPU, I sure wouldn't miss it, I'd replace it.

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[Leigh L. Klotz Jr WA5ZNU]

PICs are notorious for the lelev of hackery necessary to make things
work and fit, but the K2's PIC18 with its 31 stack levels just might
allow for a level of modularity that would let the firmware be
customized on a module level at some point in the future.  Or maybe
Microchip will come out with a pin@icompatible PIC18 with 4x the
codespace and Elecraft can offer it as an optin.

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 8:33 am, David A. Belsley wrote:
>> free up code space for other functions.
> Removing the internal keyer from the K2 would obviously reduce the K2's
> portability
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