Hello all
I have to disagree about the quality of CW produced by *most* PCs running
under XP Pro - I've tried a Winkey and could detect no significant
difference with the CW produced (using Writelog or Wintest and LPT1) - it
was good under all circumstances between 20 and 40wpm.
Can anyone help with suggestions about keying one of my boat-anchor radios -
an FT-101E which uses grid-block keying with about -8V across the key. I'm
using Wintest via the LPT port to drive a K3KU style interface (with a
2SC640 as the PNP device) - I cannot achieve a sufficiently 'hard'
earth/ground across the key contacts, even with the transistors saturated -
the radio appears to key properly but the sidetone osc is not being
activated. I don't want to use a reed relay circuit - maybe a MOSFET circuit
would be better ?
73
Chris
ZL1CT / GM3WOJ
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