Eric -- Thanks for sharing the recordings. I've heard fists somewhat like that but none quite so distinctive. I tried to figure out what makes the swing sound the way it does. I don't have a scope or any other device to visualize or capture it, so this is just by ear - it seems that his dahs are much more than three times as long as his dits, and that the leading dah in a character that begins with a dah is longer than the following dahs. Maybe someone with the right equipment (and the time to spend on it) could do a better analysis. I would be interesting to know.
Both the K3 and the KX3 allow for some personalization (as do many other rigs), by changing the weight ratios -- i.e. the ratios of dit length to dah length and of the element length to the inter-element spacing. There may be other variables in the F/W as well that I haven't looked at. I have never played with it, being an old stick-in-the-mud 3:1 curmudgeon; but I've wondered whether an idiosyncratic weighting would help make a signal stand out in a pile-up or make for better copy in the QRM . . . Anyone know? Ted, KN1CBR > > >------------------------------ > >Message: 29 >Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2014 12:39:43 -0700 >From: EricJ <eric_c...@hotmail.com> >To: elecraft@mailman.qth.net >Subject: Re: [Elecraft] [OT] Jim's Dot Stabilizer >Message-ID: <blu436-smtp8155203c73c82aaa50d1b38e...@phx.gbl> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed > >Here's a couple of recordings of W0BMU and the Lake Erie swing that Buzz >mentions. Listen online or d/l them. The bands used to be full of >interesting and quirky fists and styles like this. Not unlike speech >patterns some were quite beautiful, some were in-your-face obnoxious. >That was before non-meat code readers and (gakk!) keyboards. > >I always thought the Lake Erie swing was easy to copy in the speed range >of most ham QSOs. It has an informal chatty feel to it. > >Anyway, for those who want to remember and for those who never knew: > >https://archive.org/details/W0bmuHowardtexHarveyW0bmu > >Eric >KE6US > > > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
