Maybe I'm missing something here. Surely, as a TR user, you've had TR
send your call thousands of times. You accomplished this by programming
the function key message memories appropriately using ALT-P, C or E as
appropriate. Couldn't you do the same thing here?
73, Jim VE7FO
rt_clay@bellsouth.net wrote:
> Here's an interesting experiment I tried a while back with trlog:
>
> The K2 (and maybe other recent radios?) allows you to send cw by sending an
> ascii string to the radio over the RS-232 interface. I tried using this
> method to send the cw function keys in trlog, and it works quite well
> (latency is low enough). The cw speed is adjusted with the pot on the K2
> panel, but could also probably be changed with a remote command. A paddle can
> be connect directly to the K2 for manual sending. You do lose the cw keyboard
> in tr doing this.
>
> The point of doing this is for running TR in Windows or Linux where cw timing
> is an issue.
>
> However, there was one major problem...there is no cw message in trlog to
> send your callsign! Is there a "secret" message name for the callsign? Or is
> sending the callsign handled separately from the function and exchange keys?
> It would also be great to be able to have ESC send the "kill cw" command (I
> did do this with a separate function key and it worked fine).
>
> One other issue to to work out an interlock to prevent transmitting
> simultaneously in So2R, but I imagine that can be fixed with a small external
> circuit.
>
> Tor
> N4OGW
>
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