[Elecraft] CW rise time setting

[Jim Brown]

On 6/8/2020 9:21 AM, Richard Stutsman wrote:
> I for one would like to have some control over the rise/fall times.
> 
> You want the cleanest (narrowest) of CW signals when operating on a crowded
> band or in a contest - unless you're a rare DX station. Most of my
> operations are 22wpm rag chews on very uncrowded bands. We're often the
> only discernible signals on an entire CW band. And conditions are often
> noisy with deep QSB. Why not allow those of us operating in those
> circumstances to shorten the rise times a bit, which makes it easier to
> copy in noisy conditions,

Because that's not how it works. Keying in all Elecraft rigs since the 
K3 has been carefully shaped for optimum copy AND minimum bandwidth. 
What Elecraft does is FAR superior to those rigs with adjustable rise time.

 > My TS-590sg let's me do that, and I love it!

You should ALWAYS run it at the longest rise time setting.

 >Will the K4 sound as good as a Drake T4C? (Just askin'.)

Although I worked for Drake doing final test of their first TR3s, I 
can't say that I know what a T4C sounds like. Do you?

73, Jim K9YC