[Elecraft] N1MM CW issue

[Kevin Stover]

I've used a Winkey USB for about four years now. Perfect code. I don't 
have to worry about the PC getting busy and screwing up the CW sent with 
serial lines.

On 12/4/2015 11:44 AM, Al Lorona wrote:
> 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
>


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R. Kevin Stover
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