[Elecraft] K3 on RY...I was "caught" !!!

[DOUGLAS ZWIEBEL]

OK...a local pushed me to try it out and I was curious anyway, so I
did the CW Paddle to RY thing.  Works pretty well!  I did have to
remember to send the IM after every "over" to shut off the idle.

I worked just over 100 guys in very casual and very interrupted
operating over a couple hours.  I knew that by sending CW, I'd be
slower than normal RY, but the local said, "Hey not much difference."

I did not set up the K3 internal paddle ahead of time for "my" style
of sending and I had a bit of difficulty with it.  I ended up slowing
down my sending to 30 wpm and using the paddle as if it were a
non-iambic.  That worked fine.

However....there was at least one clever person out there who "figured
it out and caught me."

In a private email....

[snip]
Hi there Doug

You just worked me (OQ5M) on 20m RTTY. Pretty good signal.
My guess is that you were CW'ing the K3 to get RTTY out? The RY sigs came in
a tad slower than PC generated RTTY...

My K3 is ordered   ;o)
TNX for the QSO, hope to work you again. Next week would be nice.

73 de Franki ON5ZO = OQ5M
[snip]

The word is on the street!  This radio just seems to do it all.  Too
bad you have to use the internal keyer (paddles input)...it would be a
lot more fun to have it do this from the external keying source by
recognizing the dits and dahs coming into the KEY input.  Then I could
simply use my CW / SSB contest software (which sends the entire
exchange).

de Doug KR2Q