[TenTec] QSK vs 1.370

[Duane A Calvin]

You're right - I hear nothing between dits at ~25 WPM.  I have to slow
WAY down before I can hear bleeps in between the dits.  I can hear
between word breaks tho - and this is why I barely noticed it working the
contest this evening.  I could still hear the other guy between words. 
Still, not quite the same.  So, Steve, you're sending your Orion back? 
These guys are pretty good with the firmware - you might want to
reconsider.

        73,  Duane


On Fri, 28 May 2004 21:13:27 -0400 Martin Ewing <martin at aa6e.net> writes:
> 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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Duane Calvin, AC5AA
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