[Elecraft] About the K3 cw speed

[Steve Ellington]

"the K3 has more than enough speed for any high or slow cw operator"
I have to disagree: Or maybe it depends on what he is high on.....
With an external keying source, keyboard or whatever, the K3 cannot send 
good code over 40 wpm. Don't believe me? Try recording it and playing it 
back. Wayne has some ideas to help and will get to it when he can. I have an 
old Jupiter that keys beautifully over 90 wpm. The problem with the K3 lies 
in the vco circuit so I'm told.
Steve
N4LQ
N4LQ at carolina.rr.com
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Hector Padron" <ad4c2008 at yahoo.com>
To: <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 12:07 PM
Subject: [Elecraft] About the K3 cw speed


Martin,how many ops nowaday in contests or even dx work TX/RX over 30 wpm ? 
Almost none,how many roundtables you find nowaday with guys TX/RX over 50 
wpm ? almost none,eventually you will find sometimes a reduced group of two 
or three guys sending over 60 wpm and most of them using keyboards and PC 
sofware to decode,so the K3 has more than enough speed for any high or slow 
cw operator.
I am one of the few left old timers who still can copy with my ears up 65 
wpm and send with my fist up to 60 but I never go that fast because can't 
find anyone to practice with,so I think Elecraft did a good job with the 
builtin keyer set to 50.
I was in the field day recently and also in the last cw contest and could 
find anyone who could RX me when I was over 40 wpm,my speed was all the time 
no more than 30.
Don't you realize that the CW spirit has been lost in the last years,haven't 
you see how few stations are using that mode ?
I don't think we need more speed on the K3

AD4C

"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its 
limits".. -- Albert Einstein



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