[Elecraft] K3 Chaining CW Messages Quirk

[Steef PA2A]

Jack,

If I play two messages, the second one does not interrupt the first one. The 
only problem is that there is no gap at all between two messages. I would 
like to have the standard word gap between two messages.

Steef PA2A
K2 4654
K3 1184

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jack Trampler" <n2jt at fast.net>
To: "Elecraft Group" <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2008 9:09 PM
Subject: [Elecraft] K3 Chaining CW Messages Quirk


>I just got my K3 (s/n 1662) up and running and I am still getting 
>acquainted
> with it.  I loaded some simple messages into the CW Message buffers and 
> upon
> playing them back noticed an issue.  If I try to chain two messages
> together, while the first message is playing if I press the second M#
> button while the first message is sending a character, the current 
> character
> being sent is truncated immediately at that point.  The message goes on to
> send the remaining characters in the message buffer and then sends the
> second message.  If I get lucky and press the second M# button during the
> space between characters (and this can be tested easily at slow speeds) no
> character truncation takes place and both messages are sent correctly.  I
> have all updated firmware as of two days ago.  Any thoughts on this 
> besides
> not to chain messages? :)
>
> Thanks & 73,
> Jack - N2JT
> n2jt at fast.net
>
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