Scott:
Thank you for your post.
And thank you for listening. Spriit is taken as intended.
You are right about the issue that if a modification is done to force the
relays to TX and mute the audio, It would require a manual switch to take
out the PTT control and put the radio back into QSK mode. Not a great idea
but again, do-able.
It is sometimes hard to express what the real problem or functionality
desired is. Thus leading to confusion in terms. Between us we have an
understanding of what is desired. We should probably come up with a better
term for what is being described. So a clarification of what is wanted and
what can be done would simplify the discussions.
I'm not the spokesman for everyone, but I can say what it is I'm looking
for. In CW Mode, when the PTT line is lowered or closed, the antenna
relays would go to TX position and the audio would be muted, that's all
that's needed, The CW key would then do the rest as normal. When the PTT
line is raised or opened, the radio would revert back normal operation.
Any Transmit operation would always 'override' the PTT line so if a change
occured in the PTT and it went open and the transmitter was still sending a
dit or a dah, the PTT line would have no effect until the tranmistter
operation was finished. If the PTT line opened and there was no transmit
operation, then the antenna relays would revert to RX and the audio un-muted
immediately. If this is what MOX PTT is, then that may be a good term to
use.
It would be great if it was something that could be field upgraded.
Again, Thanks for the discussion.
And appreciate you talking with me over the phone so many times.
73's
Rich
K5SF
I beleive the issue is the fatigue that comes from hearing the
From: "Ten-Tec Inc. Amateur Radio Sales" <sales@tentec.com>
Reply-To: tentec@contesting.com
To: tentec@contesting.com
Subject: [TenTec] "PTT CW" vs. PTT-controlled CW redux
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 14:14:27 -0500
At 09:19 AM 2/27/04 -0600, you wrote:
K5SF wrote:
I think the PTT is a similar issue. I've heard of at least one contesting
club move whole heartedly into the Orion, I've heard others shy away for
lack of things important to them. There is more than one web site for
contesting that has said a tactic for reducing fatigue is to switch to PTT
during low activity. During High activity, the QSK is useful to catch the
caller that hits just as you start to call CQ. So this is a little
different than ice cream, there are points about it both sides. Does the
PTT disqualify a rig? now that's an ice cream choice.
Richard, take this in the polite spirit intended:
This is what makes it hard to discuss these issues - because the way this
is presented here
is NOT the PTT issue that was being debated. You can defeat the QSK in the
Orion,
as-is and operate "PTT CW", just as you have described above. Switching
back and
forth from PTT to QSK when PTT -control- of CW is in place, is not an
option. PTT
-control- is used when other devices need the proper sequencing for
switching, and/or
the operator wants to precisely control the start and stop of MOX CW
operation.
This is completely different from the issue of PTT -control- of CW transmit
where it was
suggested that Ten-Tec had no clue about engineering decisions vis-a-vis
the ham
community's needs and that I personally didn't know anything about the
needs of the
"serious" CW contest operator. Which led to me blowing up on the
reflector about
the issue - I should have kept my comments about what I think about the
station
engineering of other contest operators to myself. "PTT or semi-break in
CW" is
something I personally use fairly often in contests. PTT -control- of CW,
is not.
Squeaky wheel gets the grease, though. I insisted that PTT -control- of CW
was not
something we were going to consider with the Orion AND that the engineering
decision
to do so was the correct one. It was still the correct engineering
decision - but we'll
look into adding MOX PTT control of CW transmit as a future firmware
upgrade.
Someone above me here at Ten-Tec put it to me very succinctly about this
issue in the
last few weeks: It's not about right, in this case. Meaning, even though
it may not
be "right", why not go ahead and put it in there?
Good point. I'll leave it at that.
73
Scott Robbins W4PA
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