Re: CW feature: Swing?
Posted by
Vic K2VCO on
Jun 27, 2008; 10:32pm
URL: http://elecraft.85.s1.nabble.com/CW-feature-Swing-tp365872p365891.html
Bill W5WVO wrote:
> I got used to this feature on the TS-2000. You can set "dash/dot
> ratio" to a number less than or greater than 3.0 (where 3.0 is the
> default standard -- i.e., the dash is three times the length of the
> dot). After experimenting, I set mine to 3.7, which gave the
> transmitted CW a nice little bug-like "swing". At first, I thought
> this was what the K3's "CW weight" parameter was for, but I
> immediately discovered that wasn't the case. Would any of you other
> CW guys out there use such an adjustment in the K3 if it were
> implemented? I find that's how I naturally want to send, probably a
> holdover from my bug days years ago.
An electronic keyer with an incorrect dot-dash ratio does not sound like
a bug. It sounds like a misadjusted keyer! I wouldn't use this.
The Weight adjustment in the K2, by the way, is dot-space ratio.
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73,
Vic, K2VCO
Fresno CA
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