[Elecraft] K2 CW speed

Vic Rosenthal vic at rakefet.com
Tue Feb 22 18:05:16 EST 2005


R. Kevin Stover wrote:

> Another happy benefit of audio injected CW, really afsk, is that there 
> are no key clicks to be heard and you don't have to worry about rise and 
> fall times of the keying waveform.

The extent of the sidebands (and therefore the rise/fall times and the maximum 
speed that can be transmitted) are limited by the width of the ssb filter.  A 
signal generated this way can be quite clicky -- I would consider a 3 KHz wide 
CW signal way too wide.

-- 
73,
Vic, K2VCO
Fresno CA
http://www.qsl.net/k2vco



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