[CQ-Contest] The software keyer dilemma solved!

[Lyndon Nerenberg]

On Dec 2, 2006, at 11:09 AM, Leigh S. Jones wrote:

> I like K8GT's idea very much, but unfortunately CT doesn't run
> under Linux either.  Even if you program a new version of CT
> yourself, there are problems under all UNIXes.  I've tried with
> less than my desired results to build programs under Linux that
> send code with satisfactory rhythm.  What's needed is a
> "real-time Linux" build for sending code, and Ubuntu interrupts
> are not serviced fast enough.  A real-time Linux build has been
> developed for financial transactions by at least one company,
> so someone is certain to spawn a free release of that software
> soon.


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 ;-)

--lyndon