[Elecraft] K3 Auto CW Speed

[The Smiths]

The K3 CAN display the incoming cw speed , it's in the CWT text reading menu.  you can have it up all the time.  Turning the knob to set your speed isn't that hard once you know where you should be. I don't belive there's a need for auto setting on this.
 
> Date: Sun, 2 May 2010 08:54:20 -0700
> From: lstavenhagen at hotmail.com
> To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 Auto CW Speed
> 
> 
> 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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