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, when any close-in clicks or thumps aren't going to bother anybody? Copying a 'soft' weak CW signal is like trying to read a 'crisp' signal that's an entire S-unit weaker, IMO.
My TS-590sg let's me do that, and I love it! Will the K4 sound as good as a Drake T4C? (Just askin'.) Rick N6IET > N4ZR wrote: > > > > Will the K4 have options for setting CW rise and fall times...? > Hi Pete, > Probably not. We've always been very careful to ensure our rigs have an > exceptional clean, click-free CW signal. (Third-party testing bears this > out.) Minimizing the bandwidth requires a very specific rise/fall time and > a hand-crafted sigmoidal shaping function in DSP. > Colonel Sanders closely guards his fried chick recipe, Mrs. Fields won't > reveal what's in her chocolate-chip cookies, and only selected firmware > monks--sworn to secrecy--are privy to Elecraft's keying envelope > coefficients :) > 73, > Wayne > N6KR ______________________________________________________________ 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
