[TenTec] QSK what it is...

[Steve Ellington]

Thanks so much for your honest answer Martin. It's good to finally get one!
15 WPM QSK is what you get with 1.37. No one who ever uses QSK on a regular
basis would begin to consider this as true QSK.
QSK means that you can hear between your dots and dashes. Of course anything
has it's limits and normally 35-40WPM is about tops for most rigs when it
comes to QSK.
So it appears that this new version sacrificed the processor power for QSK
to be used for something else.
Very few rigs on the market today have QSK this poor. In fact, they haven't
for a number of years now. Even the Icoms which truncate their characters
can be easily compensated for by using an external keyer with increased
weight.

QSK? LOL

Steve
N4LQ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Martin Ewing" <martin at aa6e.net>
To: <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2004 1:13 AM
Subject: [TenTec] QSK vs 1.370


> de N4LQ:
>
> >WIsh I could have figured out what happened to my QSK with 1.370. The
> >sidetone sounded beautiful but QSK became semi-bk in with maybe a .25 sec
> >delay which is certainly not QSK. I redownload, reinstalled, rebooted
> >several times all with the same result.  Yet some of you guys say the QSK
is
> >still great. Now either we have different concepts of what QSK is or
> >something went wrong with my hardware. Anyway, I sent it back. I guess
> >someone else will end up with it. Hopefully someone who doesn't care for
> >QSK.
> >
> >
> So what _is_ "QSK" anyway?  With 1.370 and the internal keyer, I did a
> little test.  Set sidetone to zero and sent (tx disabled!) a steady
> stream of dashes or dots.  Above about 20 wpm, the T/R switch never
> drops and you hear nothing off the air.  As you go below 20 wpm, you do
> hear a little between dots or dashes.  [That's a lot less than .25 sec,
> by the way.]
>
> What we have now is a little Rx between characters and more between
> words.  Is that QSK? I suppose to purists, you should get Rx any time
> there is no RF out, i.e., between elements.
>
> Actually, I like it this way, since there's less pulsing in my headset
> while sending.
>
> -Martin
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