[Elecraft] Re:K3 Interfacing to N1MM Contest Logging software

[Carsten Steinhöfel]

>> 
>> Agreed - unlike WinKey with KY you have no idea how many characters are 
>> inside the radio waiting to be sent. It's OK for sending CQ DX ALL NIGHT 
>> LONG etc. but for anything else it's not a good option.
>> 
>I'm sorry, but I really don't get this argument in the context of contest
>operating at all. The typical contest "over", whether it's a call or a
>report or an acknowledgement, is pretty short. It takes about a couple of
>seconds to transmit. If anyone can change the text between the moment of
>hitting the Send key and the transmission being finished they are a hell of
>a lot quicker on the keyboard than I am.

Julian,

I think it's even more important for slow typers. When I still used to use only two fingers to type I would have replied to you by typing G4 <INS> ILO. I would have got to the G4 when you finished sending your call. I would then have hit <INS> to start giving you my report and while it was keying finished typing your call.

I can now type much faster and usually finish the callsign before hitting <INS>, but when I make a mistake typing (like G4IOL) I need to be able to correct it before the CW output is getting to the O.

73 Carsten, DL1EFD