[Elecraft] Text decode with straight key

[David Ferrington, M0XDF]

Yes agreed, but I guess they can't decode for the same reason.
I use an MFJ Morse decoder to tell me if I'm sending crap - it's not  
good and badly sent Morse, but since I want to know if I'm seeing good  
code, it's ok
-- 
Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them,  
and
pretty soon you have a dozen.
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On 20 Oct 2008, at 13:39, Julian, G4ILO wrote:

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> David Ferrington, M0XDF wrote:
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>> No, but it makes sense that the K3 knows whether you closed the dot  
>> or
>> dash paddle and therefore probably stores this as a digit, perhaps 1
>> for dit and 2 for dah, zeo for space?
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>> Ok Wayne/Eric/Lyle - I want to know now - how do you store the Morse
>> in the memories?
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> I wasn't too bothered about being unable to program the memories  
> with a
> straight key, although that would make it possible to use a computer  
> keyer
> to program them, which somebody might find useful. No, I just  
> thought having
> the TX Decode available for straight keys would be a nice aid to  
> improving
> one's sending.