[Elecraft] K3 TX delay

[Richard Ferch]

I think there's a bit more to it than that, Joe. My recollection, based 
on my experience in SS CW a couple of years back, is that if CONFIG:TX 
DLY is set to 20 ms, the K3's CW (with an external keyer) is "choppy" 
even when using semi-breakin or PTT. I can't be 100% sure whether I was 
using VOX or PTT, but I know for certain I was not using QSK, and I got 
reports of "distinctive-sounding" CW, not just a truncated first 
element. Setting CONFIG:TX DLY to 8 ms appears to have fixed it.

73,
Rich VE3KI


W4TV wrote:

> One solution is to use a keyer like the K1EL WinKey that permits
> adding a fixed length to the elements to compensate for the K3's
> "bit clipping".  However, the proper solution would be for the K3
> to extend each element by the length of TX Delay when in QSK and
> extend the initial element by TX Delay when in semi-break in.