| To: | "'Lyndon Nerenberg'" <lyndon@orthanc.ca>,"'Leigh S. Jones'" <leigh@j1s.us> |
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| Subject: | Re: [CQ-Contest] The software keyer dilemma solved! |
| From: | "Joe Subich, W4TV" <w4tv@subich.com> |
| Date: | Sat, 2 Dec 2006 22:53:02 -0500 |
| List-post: | <mailto:cq-contest@contesting.com> |
Lyndon writes:
> 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 ;-)
Already exists ... they're called WinKey (single radio) and WinKey2 (two
radio) by K1EL. See: www.k1el.com. The bare ICs are $6 and $10 each.
Complete kits are $47 and $59 each.
73,
... Joe, W4TV
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