[Elecraft] K3 Performance

[Jan Erik Holm]

The K3 is NOT free from key clicks, the question might be
how much we accept. Personally I would have liked it better
with the keying "a bit" softer, that is a little bit better
key click performance.
It would have been nice if there was some adjustment allowed,
lets say from 5 ms up to 7 ms or so.

SM2EKM
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Vic K2VCO wrote:
> 
> The K3's keying is a bit softer than most commercial rigs these days, 
> the rise/fall times being about 5 ms. It is easy to copy at any speed 
> that I am capable of sending, which is about 45 wpm. I don't think 
> harder keying would be helpful until above 60 wpm.
> 
> The shape of the K3's keying is excellent from the point of view of 
> transmitted bandwidth (that is, key clicks), something which can NOT be 
> said of many other radios. The ARRL test reports now include a "worst 
> case spectral display" of CW emission which shows the results of key 
> clicks, phase noise, etc., and I imagine that the K3's graph will be 
> superior to almost anything else out there.
> 
> To my ear the CW keying is absolutely perfect, the way I would adjust it 
> if I could adjust it. I believe that Wayne intends to make it possible 
> to change the rise/fall times, so the 65+ wpm operators may want to do 
> that!