The P3 is quite useful to an NTS NCS. I just called the Carolinas Net (CN) and was very pleased to see where I could send folks down 2 (while I had folks up 2). Things have got much more difficult with the digital modes!
Tom W4KX Sent from my iPad > On Jun 11, 2020, at 5:07 PM, Wayne Burdick <[email protected]> wrote: > > I eavesdrop on the 80 m traffic nets occasionally. Impressive level of > efficiency and skill among the ops. Who knew there were so many Q-codes :) > > Wayne > N6KR > > >> On Jun 11, 2020, at 2:03 PM, Tom Doligalski <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> 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. 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