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Re: [CQ-Contest] The software keyer dilemma solved!

To: "'Lyndon Nerenberg'" <lyndon@orthanc.ca>,"'Leigh S. Jones'" <leigh@j1s.us>
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] The software keyer dilemma solved!
From: "Joe Subich, W4TV" <w4tv@subich.com>
Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2006 22:53:02 -0500
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Lyndon writes: 

> Wrong approach.  The way to deal with this is to build an external  
> keyer that you can feed ASCII characters via an RS232 interface.  
> Now you can key your radio from any piece of software that can 
> write to a serial port.  This is about as OS agnostic as you can get ;-)

Already exists ... they're called WinKey (single radio) and WinKey2 (two 
radio) by K1EL.  See: www.k1el.com.  The bare ICs are $6 and $10 each. 
Complete kits are $47 and $59 each.  

73, 

   ... Joe, W4TV 
     

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