[Elecraft] [FT817] ELECRAFT

[Wayne Burdick]

Mike Morrow wrote:

> The IC-7000, like almost all Asian-origin HF rigs (including the  
> FT-817)
> also does NOT allow selection of iambic keying mode!  They are all set
> permanently for mode B.

Elecraft rigs give you modes "A" and "B", which are both iambic but  
with different element-insert timing.

> The ICOM display boss at Dayton 2011 was very dismissive when I  
> asked why
> a rig with as many selection options as the IC-7000 does not permit a
> function as basic as iambic mode selection.  (At least he knew what  
> "iambic
> mode" meant.  The others there thought I was talking about whether  
> dots
> or dashes were sent when a left or right key closure was made!)  He  
> blamed
> it on "engineering" (!?) and lamely, disinterestedly, claimed that  
> he couldn't
> control what "they" came up with.  Well, there'll never be any  
> purchases
> at KK5F of HF rigs that are so poorly designed in these small  
> details that
> the larger ones are suspect as well.

Show 'em who's boss :)

Wayne
N6KR