Right own, bro,
Referring to weight as dot:dash ratio has been a pet peeve of mine for many
years. And not just with internal keyers, either.
I'm not even convinced that any of them do really adjust the ratio at all.
The ones I am experienced with actually were honest weight controls all
along. I had an old Autronic keyer which had a separate speed control for
the dots and one for the dashes!
73, K6XK
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Ellington <n4lq@iglou.com>
To: Peter Inskeep <pinskeep@iglou.com>
Cc: Dale L. Martin <kg5u@hal-pc.org>; tentec@contesting.com
<tentec@contesting.com>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Tuesday, January 12, 1999 12:00 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Re: CW Practice on Omni
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>Why do some internal keyers allow control of the dash to dot ratio and
>they bill it as a "weight control"? Facts are, the dot/dash ratio is
>supposed to always be 1:3. They teach that in code class. There is a big
>difference in that and weighting. Weight has to do with the length of both
>characters and the ratio stays constant.
>
>Being able to change weight is important. Some rigs tend to chop the
>characters such as the IC-706 but when you look a the keyer's menu, there
>is nothing to change by ratio whichis of no use.
>
>What I'm wondering is this: Did the design engineers suddenly
>misunderstand what cw is about or are they just not capable of designing
>the keyer correctly?
>
>I built a little curtis chipped keyer into my TKIT 1340 and it has a real
>weight control. Ratio is fixed as it should be. What's the dea;?
>
>N4LQ
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>> When ST and then CW are pressed, the lower number becomes the keying
>> weight. My 1.15 is 115% of the normal 3 to 1 dash to dot ratio. This
>> ratio may be changed by pressing the down and up arrow buttons located on
>> either side of the keypad number 0.
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>Steve Ellington N4LQ
>N4LQ@IGLOU.COM
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