[CQ-Contest] CQWW - are signal reports optional?

[Dale L Martin]

Drew White/K9CW's micromputer-based contest keyer (8748) had that feature.
You simply punched the memory keypad number to start the message and press
the appropriate 's' number on the keypad to automatically fill it in.  If no
second number is pressed, the RST goes out as 5NN.

His keyer was featured in January 1981 Ham Radio Magazine.  I built it back
then.  I used it for a number of years.  It was a great keyer.

73,
dale, kg5u

> Brett,
>
> I think that either your feeble old memory or mine has mixed up
> the capabilities of other keyers with the accu memory.
>
> There was an Accu-Memory II that was only available in a
> commercial version that may have had features such as this, but I
> don't believe that the original was that sophisticated.
>
> I thought that such pauses for input were started in keyers such
> as the venerable KC Keyer and some from AEA.
>
> 73,
> N5NJ
>
> >