[Elecraft] K3 - "Real" CW - Mills

[Fred Jensen]

Ken Kopp wrote:

> ships I sailed on had the RO's desk athwart
> of the ship, so when she rolled the carriage would take
> "excursions".  In rough seas one had to type one-handed in order to hold 
> the carriage. (:-)  And it -was- an all-caps machine.

Our only "rolling" problem stemmed from So. California earthquakes :-) 
Our mills were open frame Underwood's, all caps, with a handful of 
barred prosigns.  I think BT and AR were two of them but memory fades 
after 51 years.  INT and IMI might have been there as well [whatever 
happened to INT?].  Punctuation was pretty limited and I don't recall 
ever using it much.

Two K3 questions:

What does the K3 output on RTTY or PSK31 when you send BT or AR with the 
paddle?  Maybe I can monitor with the K2 and try it out if I can get the 
K2 to talk to the laptop.

In TEXT DECODE, is there an option to get the decoded text to come out 
the RS-232 connector as ASCII?

73,

Fred K6DGW
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