[Elecraft] N1MM CW issue

[Al Lorona]

Right after the CW SS I composed a message for the list, then trashed it after sleeping on it which I always do before posting. Now that the issue has come up on its own I wish to make an observation.

During the contest I heard many stations with shortened dits. They sounded pretty bad and I reckon they weren't listening to themselves else they'd have done something about it.

Presuming that some of these signals were coming out of K3's [because some of these were well-known contesters] I actually got nervous and checked my own signal which, like Tom's, is generated by N1MM+ keying the K3 through DTR, but was relieved to find that my dits were okay.

So there's something going on out there, and I don't know what it is, but what I do know is that keying through the USB-to-Serial is proven to work well as Tom has verified. He should know; he is a very QRQ CW op.


Al W6LX



>>>For keying my K3, I use the DTR line. I have tested sending CW, with the
>>>default weight setting, up to about 115 wpm and from 20 wpm up to the max of
>>>my K3, in my opinion, the NL+ weight maintains perfect weight/spacing up to

>>>that speed.