[Elecraft] CW keyer issues

[Steve Ellington]

The keyer in the TS-870 is a Logic Keyer (K1). You could buy a Logic Keyer 
and probably some emulation that fits you better.

The keyer in the K3 is as good as I've seen. I understand it emulates the 
Curtis keyer which is my favorite. I've had the TS-870 and many others and I 
find them all easy to use up to my limit of coordination about 35 wpm then I 
start making mistakes. The only internal keyer I couldn't use was the one in 
the Omni 6.
 It could be that you are sensitive to sidetone delay or echos in the room. 
Have you tried using headphones?
Steve N4LQ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wes Stewart" <n7ws at yahoo.com>
To: <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>; "Barry" <w2up at comcast.net>
Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 11:01 AM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] CW keyer issues


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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