[Orion] Orion N4PY CW keying problems

A. Sewell alan.n5na at gmail.com
Tue Dec 20 19:36:50 EST 2005


Jim,

Just playing with it here.  It looks to me like A & B are switched.  A 
is behaving like B and vice versa.  But, when you switch mode in the 
menu you have to cycle the power off and on for the change to take effect.

This will probably be addressed in version 2.

73,

Alan  N5NA

James C. Garland wrote:
> Hi Gang,
>
> I can't see any difference when I switch the Orion keyer between the 
> Curtis A and Curtis B keyer modes. With the Curtis B mode, if the 
> paddle is released when a dash is sent,  the keyer is supposed to 
> follow up with a dot. In other words, if the paddle is released when 
> sending the dash with the letter A, the keyer is supposed to follow 
> it up with a dot, turning the A into the letter R. In the Curtis A 
> mode, the A is completed, and no additional dot is sent. On my Orion 
> (v.1.372) there is no difference between the Curtis A and B modes. 
> The Orionsalways seems to be in the Curtis A mode.
>
> A second problem: when using the N4PY progam to set the dot and dash 
> weights, and the characacter spacing weights,  nothing changes. The 
> sliders move, but the Orion doesn't change. Anybody else noticed this??
>
> 73,
>
> Jim W8ZR
>
>
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