[Elecraft] K3: dot/dash memories

[Brendan Minish]

On Sun, 2007-12-30 at 22:49 +0000, G3SJJ wrote:
> I didn't say contest loggers! Logger32 incorporates Winkey support. The 
> point I was making is that these days most people go for Winkey in one 
> way or another. Here I have the mHam Keyer which is built around WinKey 
> for its CW keying, and also the little WinKeyer USB for portable work.

I don't have a winkeyer nor have I ever used one but looking at the
manual on Microham's website, it seems to me that this keyer is actually
huge step backwards compared to the Logikey keyers if a versatile Keyer
in the absence of a windows PC is required. 
The winkeyer appears to be  primarily a method of allowing good keying
from a PC with some standalone keyer features added.

My logikey keyer runs for literally years on 3 AAA batteries, is small
enough to take anywhere and has access to all it's functions via 4 built
in buttons  

Perhaps I am missing a few things here but the missing features in the
winkey based keyers would seem to me to be in (no particular order ) 

Limited ability to program directly from the key (I.e no editing or
delete features) and no embedded commands in messages

No support for macros (I use these all the time) 
Limed range of keyer styles (and only selectable from software) 
No banked memories ( use different banks for HF & 6 for example)
casual contest features built into the keyer (serial number and a way to
easily decrement the serial #)  
Built in buttons
Ability to set side-tone pitch, Keying compensation etc (including
compensation for Icom's dot shortening in QSK) from the paddles 
Size

 
you can read the cmos4 manual here 
http://www.idiompress.com/CMOS-docs.html#4

73
Brendan EI6IZ 


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