[Elecraft] K3 Auto CW Speed
Rick Prather
k6limaecho at gmail.com
Sun May 2 13:03:04 EDT 2010
Since you use cocoaModem, one work around for this is use it to copy the CW. I sometimes do that for a backup and it will display the incoming CW speed.
Rick
K6LE
On 5/2/2010, at 8:54 , lstavenhagen wrote:
>
> Now this is a feature I'd support too.... Over the years I've gotten
> reasonably good at guessing speeds, but I still tend to overestimate this. I
> was working some of the stations in the 7QP contest last night with my K3
> and RUMLog and on several occasions estimated their speed at around 30wpm.
> But when I adjusted the keyer to their speed it was closer to 25wpm.
>
> It'd be pretty cool if the rig had the option to figure out the character
> speed and be able to adjust the keyer accordingly. Tho if the sending
> station is using Farnsworth weighting, you might still want to do this
> manually....
>
> As for a permanent display of keying speed, yeah I can see how the lack of
> real estate on the display is a problem here. But I'd support that too (tho
> RUMLog for example always displays the keyer speed in the keyer dialog)....
>
> 73,
> LS
> W5QD
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