On Friday 21 March 2008 16:58, Bill W5WVO wrote:
All good reasons. My #1 reason, though, is that I've never used a VOX that
didn't suck.
How about the fact that a foot switch leaves both hands free? I once
worked as a mobile phone/paging/answering service operator, and let me
tell
I have a Line Master 632-S which is decades old. I used when I used
to do M/M contesting (multi-op, multi-transmitter). You could
probably drive a tank over it without damaging it.
When lots of op's all talk at once and they are in close proximity to
each other, you can't use vox.
Which begs
DOUGLAS ZWIEBEL wrote:
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Which begs the question...why do folks use a foot switch from home if
they are the only one in the room? I use vox.
When you have young children. :-)
73,
Mike ab3ap
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With a foot-switch ... even on CW ... I'm in control
and if I want to pause I'm not met with noise when
I take a breath ... either when talking or keying CW.
Put another way ... I use VOX -and- the foot-switch
at the same time ... provides total flexibility. The
foot switch is faster that VOX
Well. I can think of a few reasons:
Keeps the family dog from becoming a radio personality when the mail
carrier or some other delivery person comes up to the door
I like the positive control - a foot switch lets me make sure the PTT
is closed when I want the transmitter on, and open
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Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: foot switch - why?
Well. I can think of a few reasons:
Keeps the family dog from becoming a radio personality when the mail
carrier
All good reasons. My #1 reason, though, is that I've never used a VOX that
didn't suck. The VOX in my TS-2000 sucks big-time. In fact, the VOX gain is so
limited, you can't even turn it up high enough so it works with a standard
Heil HC-4/5 mic element -- though the mic gain through the
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Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: foot switch - why?
Well. I can think of a few reasons:
Keeps the family dog from becoming a radio personality when the mail
carrier or some other
Bingo!
In the analog world getting a VOX to work properly was a difficult task. It
required an audio delay line. In todays DSP world VOX should be perfect.
The problem is that there are no minimum standards for a VOX. People got used
to VOX's that took a half second or more of audio to
IMHO, the real reason for a foot switch is timing. When
running high rates in a phone contest, you can't set the VOX
delay and hang time well enough to drop the PTT soon enough
without chopping up in the middle of speaking (or yelling, as
it were).
... Until the K3 came along with KK7P's
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