[Icom] FS CR-338 (NIB) & some questions

[Jerry Flanders]

At 08:44 6/21/02 -0600, you wrote:
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>I do mostly CW and discovered the Key rise time adjustment recently.
>Does the rise time setting affect the keying waveform drastically?
>Does it affect the RC sig characteristics significantly? (I'd love to
>see some spectrum analyzer plots)
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>73, Rod N0RC

  When I first got my PRO Last September, I checked the RF output on an 
oscilloscope to make sure I was not hot-switching my QSK AMP. I could watch 
the CW output ramp up and decay down as I keyed. I changed the CW keying 
time constant throughout its range and could see the effect on the 
rise/decay. It was performing "as advertised" - definitely softer keying as 
I lengthened the rise/decay. I left mine set at the mid-point. Years ago 
when I operated mostly CW, I preferred to listen to "soft" keying.

Jerry W4UK