[Elecraft] All mode keyboard, was Re: CW Keyboards

[Doug Faunt N6TQS +1-510-655-8604]

   Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 04:58:06 -0800 (PST)
   From: Julius Fazekas <phriendly1 at yahoo.com>

   For those who need or want a CW Keyboard, I would recommend
   K1EL. www.k1el.com

   CW keyboards are great, particularly in situations where you're
   very tired and prone to less than perfect sending by other
   methods... straight key in my case.

And if you want to run RTTY without a computer, but with a keyboard,
his K40 keyer (out of stock right now) will act as an keyboard to FSK
adapter.  I've done it with my old IC-756Pro, as a fun thing to do,
once.

OTOH, I'm sure somewhere there's microprocessor code for a CW keyboard
that could be modified to produce paddle outputs i.e. a closure for dit,
and a different one for dah.
When plugged into the paddle input on the K3, that would give you
no-computer keyboard operation for CW, RTTY and PSK, using the
built-in text decode for reception, if you can't copy all those modes
by ear 8-}.

I've built a bunch of WKUSB's for N8S and for my YU friends, too.

73, doug