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

[Tom HammondNØSS]

Bob:

>>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.
>I used to build the Accu-Keyers to sell (even sold a CMOS version), and 
>also built three or four of the Accu-Memories.  If my feeble old mind 
>remembers correctly, you could pause for any length of time while you were 
>programming it to make a word space, and then continue.  Maybe that's what 
>Brett is thinking of?
>Loved to watch that digital display while it was playing back.  :-)

I believe the Accu-Memory allowed you to pause for manual entry of other 
data, and then it'd pick back up and continue sending from that point. This 
is something the Basic Accu-Keyer didn't offer.

Tom  N0SS