I am a doubter and avid contester. I've had zero negative comments about my keying using simply a serial cable from a COM port direct to the K3 RS232 port.
That's 8000 plus CW QSOs and who knows how many unanswered CQs and wing and a prayer repeats over the past year. Win2K and N1MM mostly, some XP with a laptop (yes one blessed with a real serial port). Yes, I have three K1EL keyers, but only use the USB keyer with the K2. YMMV, but I'm a happy camper on CW with a very simple no interface setup with my K3. 73, Julius n2wn R. Kevin Stover wrote: > > Everybody should be using a Winkey to key CW. > > Some people will deny that keying directly from an serial port > controlled by windows causes keying errors. When we ran DOS, the > applications could have unfettered access to the ports. You could also > easily harness the system clock and use it rather than the OS to supply > the timing for CW. It was easy to background a process like sending CW > knowing you had control of the port when you needed it. Not so with > Windows98 and up. XP is especially bad. > > Ever had an application or the OS grab a hold of a USB, serial or > parallel port and not let go when the application or process terminated? > It never happened in DOS. > > One question for the doubters. If a winkey like device isn't necessary > to send properly timed CW, why do several hardware manufacturers, Micro > Ham, US Interface, Rig Expert, and nearly all general and contest > logging applications support it? Just to make K1EL rich? > > W0MU Mike Fatchett wrote: >> N1MM users have had similar issues. I don't know if AB7R's fix works but >> many have just gone to a Winkey keyer as a solution. I have one built >> into >> my SO2R MK2R+ Microham devices so I have never seen this issue. >> >> >> "A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you >> may >> never get over." Ben Franklin > > -- > R. Kevin Stover, ACØH > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 > > ----- Julius Fazekas N2WN Tennessee Contest Group http://www.k4ro.net/tcg/index.html Tennessee QSO Party http://www.tnqp.org/ Elecraft K2/100 #4455 Elecraft K3/100 #366 -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Re%3A-K3-choppy-CW-tp2386856p2391682.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.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
