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

[Vic K2VCO]

Steve Ellington wrote:
> 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 scope says otherwise. The K3 has a weight control. Dot:Dash ratio is constant. 
Dot:Space ratio is weight, and that's what the K3 weight control changes.

> 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.

I don't disagree that the Dot:Dash ratio should never change. I don't have an ICOM radio, 
so I can't tell you what it does, but I know the K3 changes the weight.

The Idiom press keyers have two adjustments: Weight (W), which changes Dot:Space ratio as 
it should, and Keying Compensation (K), which lets you add a fixed amount to all keyed 
elements, to compensate for a fixed shortening in the radio.

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73,
Vic, K2VCO
Fresno CA
http://www.qsl.net/k2vco