[Elecraft] K3: "Ultimate" Digital (WAS: Automatic Character Spacing)

[Ron D'Eau Claire]

Of course, if it were possible to plug a keyboard into the K3's programming
jack it might be possible to use a keyboard instead of paddles and have a
Morse generator that does *everything* automatically. 

I wonder how far away we are from rigs in which you speak into a microphone
and it transmits PSK, RTTY, CW or that "ancient" SSB modulation? And then,
instead of a scrolling row of characters across a display, a voice of our
choosing speaks whatever is being received in any of those modes. 

Ron AC7AC 




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


I would like to second that request.  I still use the CMOS Super Keyer 1
which came after the Accukeyer and it has ACS which I miss when using the K2
and (soon - maybe this weekend - 35% assembled so far) K3. Once you get used
to ACS, it is hard to do without it.  The K1EL, NorCal, and PK4 keyers, and
others, have ACS.

73,

John W2XS

(BTW - IMHO - the software implementation of ACS in the Logikeyers, direct
descendants of the CMOS Super Keyer, is not as good as the older,
hardware-only implementation).