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Re: [RTTY] "Straight key night" for RTTY

To: RTTY Reflector <rtty@contesting.com>
Subject: Re: [RTTY] "Straight key night" for RTTY
From: Kok Chen <chen@mac.com>
Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2008 09:54:50 -0800
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On Dec 7, 2008, at 12/7    8:43 AM, Jim Reisert AD1C wrote:

> I know you can hook a paddle to a K3 to send RTTY,
> but has anyone tried doing it with a straight key?

Nope, won't work.  As with paddling in the set up parameters, the K3  
takes information from the paddle positions rather than decode the  
actual Morse sequence.  It is much easier to determine dit-dah timing  
from a paddle/keyer than to figure out inter-element Morse spacings  
on the fly.

73
Chen, W7AY

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