I use a keyer 99% of the time. A keyer is impersonal. They all sound the same, more or less. With a hand key (or a bug), you can add your own personality. In the olden days, many operators could be identified by their keying personality alone. In a pileup I can see that a signal with a personalized keying pattern might be able to be easier to pick out. On a clear channel, with just a single signal present with a good signal to noise ratio, they keyer generated code would probably be just as good. On the other hand, at poor signal to noise ratios a hand key might more easily be able to emphasize a character that was received incorrectly in a call sign for example.
73 - Mike WA8BXN -------Original Message------- From: William H. Fite Date: 3/2/2012 10:15:32 PM To: Robert Logan Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Flexradio] Hand key with 1500 At the risk of being slammed for saying something "not useful," I cannot Imagine any rationale behind the belief that hand code is more readable Than keyer code sent at the same speed. That is absolutely counter Intuitive. Splainify, please. _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/
