I'm advised that there isn't a built in "bug" option for paddle
configuration and I want to stay "bug" op from home, mobile and portable
(KX3).
Has anyone configured the keyer to "bug" or used a PicoKeyer for similar?
Tks K7SXN
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I just plug my bug into the key jack on the side and configure the jack as a
hand key in the menu. I've found that the electronic bug emulations in keyers
sound terrible on the air when I try to use them. I can at least generate
reasonably decent CW with my real bugs.
Jim - W0EB
Sent from my
If Elecraft is considering making parts of their radios open
source, the keyer logic seems the best place to start. I have
seen more requests for tweaks to keyer logic than any other part
of the radio.
73 Bill AE6JV
On 8/28/14 at 4:11 PM, h2osmo...@gmail.com (Smokey) wrote:
I'm advised that
The most important feature of a bug isn't that the operator determines
the length of the dahs. It is the mechanical feedback that the operator
gets which (in the right hands) makes possible the rhythmic sending that
can be so pleasing. No keyer emulation can possibly provide that.
On 8/29/14 2:
True ... but, spacing has always been the issue. It was solved way back
in 1949 -- check out October 1949 QST -- but for some reason, it never
caught on.
73,
Fred K6DGW
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On 8/28/2014 9:02 PM, Vic, K2V
On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Fred Jensen wrote:
True ... but, spacing has always been the issue. It was solved way back in
> 1949 -- check out October 1949 QST -- but for some reason, it never caught
> on.
>
Thanks Fred. Took me a few minutes to find it. My first search turned up
Silent Key
I think trying to emulate the "feel" (mechanical feedback) of a bug with an
electronic keyer was the reason Vibroplex designed the Vibro-Keyer. I will
leave it to others to judge whether they achieved that goal, but somebody
must like them because they're still in production over 50 years later.
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