[Elecraft] [K3] CW feature: Swing?

[Ron D'Eau Claire]

Well, gee, I can get those effects on my K3, even long telegraphic dashes
for zeros! 

I just use my Bug to key the rig! 

Any time we turn over to machines or "technology" the chore of doing
something, we are subservient to a fierce dictator of our own making. The
machine will always do what it does and never quite what we'd like it to do.
Our best hope is that it we like the advantages enough to offset the
inherent problems. 

Even my Bug. But I can always disassemble and clean it to give myself the
illusion that I am in charge, after all.

Ron AC7AC

-----Original Message-----

Bill W5WVO wrote:
> I got used to this feature on the TS-2000. You can set "dash/dot 
> ratio" to a number less than or greater than 3.0 (where 3.0 is the 
> default standard -- i.e., the dash is three times the length of the 
> dot). After experimenting, I set mine to 3.7, which gave the 
> transmitted CW a nice little bug-like "swing". At first, I thought 
> this was what the K3's "CW weight" parameter was for, but I 
> immediately discovered that wasn't the case. Would any of you other CW 
> guys out there use such an adjustment in the K3 if it were 
> implemented? I find that's how I naturally want to send, probably a 
> holdover from my bug days years ago.