[Elecraft] CW keyer issues

[Wes Stewart]

In answer to your last two comments, yes and yes.

Although I passed a 20 wpm test in front of an FCC examiner, I'll confess to not being much of a CW op.  Nevertheless, with my TS-870 and its built-in Accukeyer I send nearly flawless CW.  With the K3---well if I haven't programmed the message with the utility, I don't send it.

I suppose it's me, but I thought the object of electronic keyers was to improve sending, not make it worse.  So I have what is arguably the finest CW rig around and what do I do with it? I took up RTTY.

Overly harsh?  Perhaps, but it seems like this is something that could be fixed in software.  That's the point of SDR, right?

Wes  N M S W S.....N 7 W S

--- On Mon, 9/20/10, Barry <w2up at comcast.net> wrote:

>   For many years, I've used the
> Island keyer II (in CMOS Superkeyer III 
> emulation mode), the CMOS Superkeyer III, and prior to that
> the VVF 
> Accu-keyer.
> 
> I find with the K3 keyer, I tend to miss trailing dits,
> particularly 
> with iambic character like C, presumably due to differences
> in timing, 
> such as the dot memory.  I guess the solution is going
> back to my 
> external keyer.  Wonder if many others have had this
> experience?
> 
> Barry W2UP
> 
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