Hi Wayne! I had faith that the excellent qsk in the K3 would carry over to the K4. Thanks so much!
I can easily recognize other rigs in cw nets. 50 years of cw traffic! Tom W4KX Sent from my iPad > On Jun 11, 2020, at 3:23 PM, Wayne Burdick <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 >> <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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:[email protected] >>>> >>>> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >>>> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >>>> Message delivered to [email protected] >>> >>> ______________________________________________________________ >>> Elecraft mailing list >>> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >>> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >>> Post: mailto:[email protected] >>> >>> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >>> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >>> Message delivered to [email protected] >> ______________________________________________________________ >> Elecraft mailing list >> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft >> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm >> Post: mailto:[email protected] >> >> This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net >> Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html >> Message delivered to [email protected] > ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
