[Elecraft] Farnsworth and keyer memory loading (K3 Wishlist)

Vic Rosenthal vic at rakefet.com
Sun Nov 16 18:46:21 EST 2008


Ken_ke2n wrote:
> I do not want to bring up the pro's and con's of Farnsworth CW (discussed in
> many many posts in the elecraft forum, but not specifically in the K3 area).
> 
> I would just mention that this is a pretty standard technique on EME, to
> deal with libration fading.
> 
> I was quite frustated to have to send by hand, or use an external keyer with
> the K3, this weekend.
> 
> Has somebody raised this to a wish list item?

I would not like to see this added to the  K3. It's quite specialized,
and I'm sure there would have to be a way to adjust the spacing. Not
everything has to be built into the radio -- that's why there are
external keyers, etc.

> A related thing that would be nice (and may actually be required) for this
> to work, is to be able to load the CW messages from your PC into the K3
> memories, using the K3 Utility program. 

Yes, it would be nice to load both CW and frequency memories from the
utility.
-- 
73,
Vic, K2VCO
Fresno CA
http://www.qsl.net/k2vco



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