[Elecraft] K3 CW speed request

[drewko1 at verizon.net]

On Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:53:14 +0100, David G4DMP/G3KEP wrote:

>In a recent message, charles <m0bin at m0bin.demon.co.uk> wrote ...
>>Is it possible to have a speed step of .5 in between the present CW speed
>>settings of whole numbers?
>>
>>I am particularly looking for a CW speed of 21.5 wpm just now.
>
>Charles, I doubt that the tolerance of the K3 displayed speed is better 
>than +/- 0.5wpm, so you may find that 21 or 22wpm could be just the 
>speed you are looking for.  Have you measured it accurately?  Your 
>findings would be of interest here.
>
>73


I measured the sidetone dah lengths at the speaker: 

A 22wpm dah is 0.207 sec; a 21wpm dah is 0.219 sec. Not sure about the
conversion to wpm but I think this comes out to 24 wpm and 22.8 wpm
respectively; could be wrong.

73,
Drew
AF2Z