[Elecraft] Side Effects of QRQ On The K3

[Brian Alsop]

Not quite so.  Increase your TX DLY to 25 ms and listen to your CW.
At 8ms (default), it behaves as you say.  Significantly higher values 
cause QSD.  It doesn't matter if you're using the internal keyer or an 
external keyer.

73 DE Brian/K3KO

On 4/12/2014 22:35, Fred Jensen wrote:
> On 4/12/2014 1:07 PM, David Cole wrote:
>
>> 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?
>
> Short answer: No and you can stop being apprehensive about it. :-)
>
> You will plug in your paddle [and/or external keyer and/or computer],
> and you will be sending clickless CW with full-QSK.  Had the subject not
> come up [again] on this email list, the odds that you'd ever encounter
> and notice its effects are vanishingly small unless you are a 60+ WPM
> full QSK operator.  I operate in a lot of CW contests with N1MM driving
> a WinKeyUSB at between 30 and 35 WPM, KPA500, full QSK, QRQ option off.
>   No one has ever given me a QSD.  When I've specifically asked friends
> [good CW ops] to evaluate my keying, they tell me it's great.  My "fist"
> is another matter of course. :-)
>
> It's another example of how you have to filter a list like this one. The
> variety of K3 owners is vast, and some push the limits in various ways
> and at those limits, they start seeing things the vast majority of us
> never do or ever will.  They tend to discuss them here, which is fine.
> Those using the K3 as the IF for transverters up to the microwave ranges
> are very concerned about frequency stability, and often discuss it on
> this list too.  Your K3 will be rock-solid for you on HF, no need for
> apprehension over that either.
>
> 73,
>
> Fred K6DGW
> - Northern California Contest Club
> - CU in the 2014 Cal QSO Party 4-5 Oct 2014
> - www.cqp.org
>
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