[Elecraft] [K3] Help with K3, TenTec TITAN amp, and QSK

[Steve Ellington]

Aw come on....Turn the "weight" control up and your dahs get longer. The 
dits stay the same. This is RATIO, not weight. A weight control would make 
your dits shorter, lighter, less heavy. Just like changing the gap on a bug.
The JA boys changed this back a few years ago and started calling weight 
ration. Any Curtis keyer has it right. The Idom Press keyers have it right 
as well as the K1EL series. All of this have real weight controls and some 
even have weight and ration controls. The ICOMs have ratio controls and they 
are useless. The correct ratio is 3:1 and should never vary.
Steve Ellington
N4LQ at carolina.rr.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Vic K2VCO" <vic at rakefet.com>
To: "Steve Ellington" <n4lq at carolina.rr.com>
Cc: "David Windisch" <davidjw at CINCI.RR.COM>; <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2009 1:32 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] [K3] Help with K3, TenTec TITAN amp, and QSK


> Steve Ellington wrote:
>> 2 things:
>> I see that the K3 can delay RF generation before keying the amp relay but 
>> what about, upon key up, delaying amp delay until RF ceases?  How is this 
>> accomplished. Is it included?
>
> Yes, AMP KEY does not drop until after RF generation stops. I don't recall 
> how long the delay is.
>
>> 2. The K3's keyer is excellent but it's a ratio adjustment, not weight as 
>> indicated. The dit length or heaviness is non adjustable. This is like 
>> most JA rigs and is really strange. Why would anyone want long dahs like 
>> a bug? A real weight control shortens both dits and dahs equally and 
>> makes overall keying sound more choppy or heavier. Although the K3's 
>> weight is about right, some of us would prefer lighter weight for  high 
>> speed and heavy weight for bad conditions. This goes way back to the 
>> early days of  Morse.
>
> I don't think this is correct. I think it controls the dot:space ratio and 
> the dot:dash ratio is constant. In fact, I looked at it on the scope and 
> is is a weight control.
>
>
> -- 
> 73,
> Vic, K2VCO
> Fresno CA
> http://www.qsl.net/k2vco