[Elecraft] kxpd3 question

[Fred Jensen]

On the matter of spacing, I direct your attention to the October 1949 
issue of QST, pg 40: "The Humbug" by A. F. Scotten, W6ZMZ.  He noted 
that our keyers [they existed then, just fairly primitive] send the 
well-formed dits and dahs. The spacing is up to us.  His astounding 
discovery was that, if our keyers sent well-formed spaces instead, we'd 
have textbook quality CW on the air, the dits and dahs just fall out 
automatically!

He offered a test sentence, "Then after Richard had arrived, he and 
Clarence each kissed beautiful Annabelle and she ceased all resistance 
because in actual fact, she liked it better than ever."  Aside from this 
being a remarkably racy sentence for QST in 1949, it allegedly does not 
contain two or more consecutive dashes and, he posits, is very hard to 
send accurately with proper spacing.  It doesn't seem too hard for me, 
but then my keyer wouldn't exist for another 55 years although it still 
sends dits and dahs.

Since I ran across the miracle of the Humbug, I've often wondered why it 
appeared in October and not April, but nevertheless, you can work it out 
on paper ... send the spaces instead of the dits and dahs, use a keyer 
to make the spaces well-formed, and you get perfect code.

73,

Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn
Washoe County

On 11/10/2017 4:49 AM, Arthur Nienhouse wrote:
> */Often its because of poor spacing running everything together or 
> sending the dah with half the
> correct length, *timing and spacing* timing and spacing*.