[South Florida DX Association] N4YG Smart Keyer IV (possible)
Bill Marx
bmarx at bellsouth.net
Thu Sep 27 20:50:13 EDT 2007
A Note I Received From Art AB4RL...
-Bill W2CQ
Hi Bill,
Greetings from San Francisco! It's me, Art, AB4RL/6. I hope you
remember me. I'm a former member of the SFDXA and FCG...WA4YLD (RIP)
helped me put up my tower when I was a teenager living in Boca Raton
with my folks...
Anyway, I moved from Boca Raton to San Francisco almost three years
ago and have been practicing criminal defense law out here. I love it
out here. The weather is beautiful but work has been so busy it's been
hard to find the time to get on the air.
Back to discussing ham radio...I think you and I are both big fans of
N4YG and his Smart Keyer series of keyers. I still have my Smart Keyer
3 which I purchased in late 1998 or early 1999. Since then Joe's had a
couple of articles in QST about PIC based keyers and CW keyboards that
he's designed. If you check out his web page, you'll notice that he's
proposing coming out with a Smart Keyer 4:
http://www.n4yg.com/SK.html
He's trying to build a critical mass of potential interest in the
keyer before he comes out with it. I've already emailed Joe and told
him that I would buy or build a Smart Keyer 4 if he ever came out with
it (even though I'm still perfectly happy with my Smart Keyer 3). The
only drawback I have with my Smart Keyer 3 is that it can't decrement
a serial number as an embedded command but I'm getting off-topic....
If you too are interested in a Smart Keyer 4 coming out, then you
should email N4YG and let him know so.
In any case, please pass along a hi to the rest of the SFDXA gang,
especially N8PR and W4UM. You guys were always a friendly bunch. I
miss you all.
73, Art AB4RL/6
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