[Elecraft] Side Effects of QRQ On The K3

[David Cole]

Hi Toby,

Could you expand a bit on the choppy CW thing?  I am a new K3 person,
and I just bought my K3.  All this talk about choppy CW makes me a bit
apprehensive. If I use a normal Vibroplex iambic paddle, and send well
am I going to have a problem, or is this something about using the KBD
option?
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Thanks and 73's,
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On Sat, 2014-04-12 at 15:21 -0400, Toby Pennington wrote:
> I have not seen anything posted on this in a long time,  so thought I 
> would revisit it to see if any progress had been made in the area of the 
> QRQ feature.  This feature was created so that cw ops could send with 
> their keyboards,  or in my case on a paddle at around 25 wpm, and have 
> smooth cw being sent out.  Otherwise,  without QRQ being turned on.  the 
> cw sounds choppy even at 25 to 30 wpm.
> 
> The only problem with this is that when QRQ is turned on,  we lose some 
> functions like shift, and hi and lo cut.  If we turn off QRQ our cw 
> sounds choppy and the faster you go the worse it gets.  QRQ is turned on 
> and off with the RIT buttion  or in the menu.
> 
> The other evening I was on the air with a friend and some very close qrm 
> came up on frequency,  we had to turn off QRQ in order to get the shift 
> to work and our cw sending got choppy.
> 
> The other issue is just using the RIT,   this turns off the QRQ and 
> again your cw begins to sound worse.   So,  you have RIT, Shift,  Hi and 
> Lo cut that do not function with QRQ turned on,  and you need QRQ to 
> have a good sound on cw.
> 
> This is not a normal way for a receiver to function,  and although I 
> appreciate the workaround,  I wonder if a more permanent solution might 
> be on the way.
> 
> Toby K4NH
> 
> 
> 
> 
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