[Elecraft] K3 Annoying diddle in RTTY

[Don Wilhelm]

Joe,

The immediate stop *WAS* present in K3 Utility - either CTRL-T, or the 
ESC key or click on the STOP button.  Are you up to date on your version 
of K3Utility or are you using an old version - the EOT function was 
added in version 1.1.10.17.  I am certain Dick would like to know if it 
is no longer functioning.

73,
Don W3FPR

Joe Stofko wrote:
> I love teletype... played with it over 30 years ago... well before the 
> K3!
> I think that the ability to use the K3 Utility program in terminal mode
> to effect true FSK is a great feature...   I made some Q's this weekend
> during the contest and had a great time of it... except for the 5 second
> idle time that appears to be non-controlable. It is most annoying to 
> me...
> and, probably, the stations I worked in the contest, to have to sit and
> wait for the transmission to cease. I know that in the CW to RTTY
> mode, the text string IM can be sent to immediately exit to receive mode
> but this is kinda kludgy, in my opinion, when operating with the keyboard
> to have to reach over and send IM with the paddles. The terminal in 
> the utility
> program has a radio button for TRANSMIT that changes to STOP
> once in the transmit mode... but pressing it... or hitting CTRL-T
> does nothing to promote quick exit to receive mode. We seem to be stuck
> with that idle time, no matter what.  Now, I may have missed
> something somewhere that allows the user to switch immediately
> from TX to RX ...   otherwise, if there are others who are bothered
> by this ... can we ask that a future firmware release might address
> this??   I know that I could avoid this by switching to AFSK and using
> audio cables with the sound card.... but, I much prefer the simpler
> approach to plain old FSK...  and it seems a shame that the K3 firmware
> coupled with the terminal in the utility program doesn't have this 
> feature.
> If I DID happen to overlook something in the manual, pointing me to the
> information would be most appreciated !
>
> Happy New Year to all... 73,
> Joe - W1AIU
>