> You've got me intrigued now, Don - I may plug my paddles into
> the Orion this weekend (in between bouts in the BARTS
> contest) and try that keying out for myself.
I've found a lot of this O-2 keyer discussion interesting.
My take on it is that it doesn't take but a very small change in keyer
timing requirements to throw things off. We're creatures of habit if
nothing else -- I suspect like a pianist plays Czerny's "The School of
Velocity", we send CW out of very low levels of the brain, and perhaps lower
than that. There are no "fore-brain" functions involved once we get past
language and down to the level of finger twitch on the paddles.
Until a few years ago, I'd been using a WB4VVF Accu-Keyer with auto
character spacing that I built back in the 70's after the first article
appeared in QST. Although I tried to update several times, everthing else I
tried "had timing problems". I finally bought a K4, and even though it has
an "accu-keyer" emulation mode, it still just wasn't quite the same as the
original. I almost went back to my little homebrew box.
Ultimately, I bit the bullet and spent enough time with the K-4 to retrain
myself. So, although it was slightly broken when I got it, it magically
works fine now :-)
Don't really know if there's actually an issue with the keyer code in the
Orion/II or not, 'cuz I don't use it. But perhaps it just requires
"familiarity" to fix whatever bug seems to be there ....
Grant/NQ5T
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