Hi Tom, On the K4, with full QSK selected, you can hear between dots at 40 WPM.
There's no need for a "QRQ" mode, as on the K3, because the K4 doesn't have to update a synth between TX and RX. Wayne N6KR > On Jun 11, 2020, at 11:51 AM, Tom Doligalski via Elecraft > <elecraft@mailman.qth.net> wrote: > > I still do CW traffic handling, qsk is really important to me. That’s the > reason I plunked down m money for the K4. > > Tom W4KX > > Sent from my iPad > >> On Jun 11, 2020, at 1:56 PM, Bob McGraw K4TAX <rmcg...@blomand.net> wrote: >> >> Not being a high speed CW op nor a contest CW op, I find that QSK is, >> well, just very nice. I don't need to hear between the CW elements, nor >> even the letters, but more so in between the words. Some ops have a clean >> fist but run all the words together. No spaces. Drives me nuts. >> Itwouldbelikemewritingthismessageandnotputtinginanyspaces Now that just >> doesn't work with my brain. >> >> As to break-in or full QSK, I see it much like a conversation occurs in a >> room. There's thoughts shared back and forth between participants and does >> the allude to swapping ops. Yet, one can operate semi-QSK with the same >> style and results. Seems that after all, once CW speed gets above certain >> points, hearing between CW elements and words become non existent. >> >> After 61 years as a ham, starting as a Novice in 1959, I'm becoming a fairly >> good CW op and likewise enjoying it. I use it largely to stimulate my old >> slow brain. >> >> 73 >> >> Bob, K4TAX >> >> >> >> >>> On 6/11/2020 11:59 AM, Al Lorona wrote: >>> I have always felt as K9ZTV does. >>> >>> I don't mean to speak heresy here, and I would never deny anybody's right >>> to use full QSK, such as when chasing DX. However, I have never felt the >>> need to hear between dits. Between characters or words seems more than >>> enough for me, especially at the CW speeds where most people exist. Plus, >>> I've always felt it was rude to be interrupted during a transmission for >>> anything other than an emergency. One time, when I was a novice, the other >>> guy suddenly broke in frantically: MUST QRT QRT LOST BIAS. That was >>> definitely a valid emergency. I could almost smell his final getting red >>> hot and hear the plate current pegging the meter that evening. >>> >>> Al W6LX >>> >>> >>>>>> For any practical purpose needed by amateur radio operators that I can >>>>>> think of, the ability to hear between elements is not a life-and-death >>>>>> virtue. The ability to hear between characters is by far magical enough. >>> ______________________________________________________________ >>> 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 rmcg...@blomand.net >> >> ______________________________________________________________ >> 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 w...@mac.com > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 n...@elecraft.com ______________________________________________________________ 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
