[Elecraft] K3 QSK

[Ron D'Eau Claire]

Steve N4LQ wrote:

...You could tune in a steady carrier, key the rig with dits at 60 WPM and
actually hear a tone. It was awesome BUT the 706 was chopping the dits down
to almost nothing and leaving a nice, wide window between them so we could
hear the carrier...

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Some fellows to set their semi-automatic manual keys (bugs) this way too,
making "machine gun" dits. We had a name for them; it wasn't complementary.

I didn't realize any keyers did that as well. Dits are supposed to have a
50% duty cycle except the one at the end of a character. 


After more than half a century of pounding brass, as a commercial, military
and Ham Morse operator, I've yet to find any real use for QSK so fast it
lets me hear between code elements. That just produces all sorts of useless
and often irritating racket. 

Sure, one might want to catch a break-in, but experienced oprs know enough
to break between words when a decent QSK does enable the rx.

Ron AC7AC