[Elecraft] Bug simulator

[Don Wilhelm]

Don and all,

Yes, that is possible electrically, and it will work, BUT - it will drive
you nuts unless you have perfect timing with the dashes with respect to the
start and end of the automatically generated dits - I have tried it with
several keyers including the K2 just for fun.  Mechanical bugs seem to be
more forgiving for me (or maybe it is the tactle feedback that I miss), but
it is certainly easy to try it and see what your results will be - you do
not even have to open up the K2.

73,
Don W3FPR

> -----Original Message-----
>
> A few days ago someone was asking about a firmware change to make the K2
> keyer work like a bug. It seems you should be able to do this
> using the auto
> hand key mode and a diode from the dah line to the dit line. With this
> wiring keying a dah would work like a hand key and you could hold
> the key as
> long as you want but when you key a dit the diode would
> disconnect the dah
> contact and the dit contact would work normally. This should make the K2
> keyer work exactly like a bug. Just a thought. I have not tried it but it
> looks like it would work.
>
> Don Brown
> KD5NDB
>