Hi all:
I've operated at this station! :-)
I had to hit the foot switch to send with the paddle. The
computers generated PTT for automatic messages and the radios
were set up with VOX turned off.
Now CT knows how to read a paddle. Sending with the paddle does
introduce a timing problem though...the computer doesn't know
when the message ends, so it's "VOX delay" can be set
high enough to keep the amplifier from dropping out between words.
This causes the first character of calling stations to be
obliterated.
The footswitch, in addition to being nice and aerobic, solved
that problem. As Scott observed, so does letting the amplifier
drop out between words.
A letter space is only three dit times. A word space is seven.
73,
Mark
>
> >
> >Maybe a different approach should have been to ask how folks would cope
> >with a radio that does only VOX for all modes, in which case there probably
> >would not be any CW-PTT?-we-don't-need-no-stinking-PTT responses. At
> >least there are folks out there who have a reason to use CW PTT & choose
> >to do so & either they're more inclined to speak up, or may be indicative
> >that
> >more use CW PTT than those who don't.
>
> Nothing I like better than STOMPING on a PTT foot switch on CW.
> I KNOW FOR A FACT that the harder I stomp on it the louder
> I am and the faster I will get through the pileup.
>
> Not to mention it is more aerobic and keeps the blood from pooling
> in my feet.
>
> I need to decide what to use the OTHER foot for to keep it active.
> I do have a heavy duty, side-to-side rocker foot switch (IBM) that I think
> might make a great rotator controller!
>
> --John W0UN
>
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