You're right - I hear nothing between dits at ~25 WPM. I have to slow
WAY down before I can hear bleeps in between the dits. I can hear
between word breaks tho - and this is why I barely noticed it working the
contest this evening. I could still hear the other guy between words.
Still, not quite the same. So, Steve, you're sending your Orion back?
These guys are pretty good with the firmware - you might want to
reconsider.
73, Duane
On Fri, 28 May 2004 21:13:27 -0400 Martin Ewing <martin@aa6e.net> writes:
> de N4LQ:
>
> >WIsh I could have figured out what happened to my QSK with 1.370.
> The
> >sidetone sounded beautiful but QSK became semi-bk in with maybe a
> .25 sec
> >delay which is certainly not QSK. I redownload, reinstalled,
> rebooted
> >several times all with the same result. Yet some of you guys say
> the QSK is
> >still great. Now either we have different concepts of what QSK is
> or
> >something went wrong with my hardware. Anyway, I sent it back. I
> guess
> >someone else will end up with it. Hopefully someone who doesn't
> care for
> >QSK.
> >
> >
> So what _is_ "QSK" anyway? With 1.370 and the internal keyer, I did
> a
> little test. Set sidetone to zero and sent (tx disabled!) a steady
>
> stream of dashes or dots. Above about 20 wpm, the T/R switch never
>
> drops and you hear nothing off the air. As you go below 20 wpm, you
> do
> hear a little between dots or dashes. [That's a lot less than .25
> sec,
> by the way.]
>
> What we have now is a little Rx between characters and more between
>
> words. Is that QSK? I suppose to purists, you should get Rx any
> time
> there is no RF out, i.e., between elements.
>
> Actually, I like it this way, since there's less pulsing in my
> headset
> while sending.
>
> -Martin
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