[Elecraft] K3 PTT CW

[Jerry Flanders]

Hi Paul

Can you define "pure" PTT CW?

  I assume you mean CW is inactivated until you activate PTT, and the 
rig stays in TX mode until you release PTT, yet sends a signal only 
when the paddles are pressed. Is that it? Lets you use a something 
like a foot switch for total control?

Jerry W4UK

At 05:05 PM 5/23/2008, Paul W5DM wrote:

>Thanks to all who replied.
>
>In the reply, and the link enclosed, by Lexa, ok1dst,  are given reasons why
>some desire a "pure" PTT mode for CW.  There are also some excellent contest
>and dx operators who, for their own personal reasons, do not use QSK.  I
>know that ON4UN told me several years ago at Ham-Com in Texas that he did
>not use QSK.
>
>I am in no way trying to tell Elecraft what their priorities for changes
>should be; but I hope that, if not too much trouble and too dificult to
>implement, that a "pure" PTT CW will be made an available option in the K3
>for those of us who want it. For now, and not for the first time in my life,
>it is work around time.
>
>73 Paul W5DM