<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Robert Chipperfield <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robert@syxis.co.uk">robert@syxis.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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What are you using? I may be able to do the same keyer sync scripts with<br>
some radios. Even if I can't, try using ON/OFF keying via Serial Port or<br>
COM port PIN and inexpensive legacy keying circuit as documented in the<br>
Wiki; I think you'll be pleasantly surprised at how well it works.<br>
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It's an IC-7000.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Unfortunately, Icom provides no software control of the radio's internal keyer. It seems that all Icom radios have this limitation; it's not just limited to the IC-7000. Similar limitations apply to software control of the RIT and VFO B.</div>
<div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Something I didn't see how I can do - though I could be missing it - is to connect what is effectively a "straight key" from the COM port keying, and an iambic paddle at the same time?<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Some Icom rigs have one input for a paddle, and another separate input for a straight key, but not the IC-7000, so this cannot be done. The K3 allows ON/OFF keying via a serial port DTR or RTS PIN; I'm not aware of any other radio that supports this nice feature.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Maybe you can sell your IC-7000 and buy a K3. :-)
</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I did some brief experiments to try and do this on the basis I could then have run the WK at 20wpm and used the rig's internal keyer at 15wpm for sending slower when required, but couldn't see an easy solution.<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>When using an IC-7000, there seems there are really just two options:</div><div><ol><li>Use a WinKey (20 WPM min.)</li><li>Use a COM/LPT port keying circuit and an external keyer like a Logikey, with the keyer output wired in parallel with the Win-Test ON/OFF keying circuit (e.g., via a stereo "T" adapter).</li>
</ol></div><div> See <a href="http://docs.win-test.com/wiki/Interfaces#COM-port_CW_keying">http://docs.win-test.com/wiki/Interfaces#COM-port_CW_keying</a></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I suppose you could use the WinKey in standalone mode as a keyer for the paddle, and then parallel the output of that with the COM port keyer.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, though almost any legacy keyer will work; you don't need a WinKey.</div>
<div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> You'd not get the niceties like stopping computer-generated output when you touched the paddle, but that may not be too much of an issue.</blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>Correct; you get used to hitting Escape.</div><div><br></div><div>73,</div><div>Bob, N6TV</div></div>