[TRLog] Farnsworth Problem

Jim Smith jimsmith@shaw.ca
Mon, 02 Dec 2002 01:43:39 -0800


Oops, forgot to mention that this is cw sent by function keys or 
keyboard.  Keyer not involved.

Jim

Jim Smith wrote:

> Is it just me or has Farnsworth been broken for a while?  In my 
> stdcfg.dat I have FARNSWORTH SPEED = 25 followed by FARNSWORTH ENABLE 
> = TRUE.  If I understand this correctly, code sent at, say, 20 wpm 
> will send the characters at 25 wpm and put extra space between them to 
> achieve an average of 20.  This doesn't happen for me.  If I send at 
> 15 wpm the characters are formed at 15 wpm, not 25.  If my memory is 
> correct, this worked in 6.56.  I'm using 6.59.
>
> I'm going to want to do some cw op training in a while and it sure 
> would be nice to have this working.  Am I doing something wrong?
>
> 73 de Jim Smith    VE7FO