Author Topic: CW Key delay  (Read 4564 times)

oh2xx

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CW Key delay
« on: 2013-10-14, 16:32:26 »
Hi,

I have been happily using remoterig for two years now - mostly for DXing. Now I would like to run some contests too but the CW keying is an issue as I am using 3G network. Just ran 400+ QSOs in SAC phone remotely without any problems. CW keying seems to be more sensitive to jitter.

So this is actually a feature request. I would like to see a key delay of 500 ms in the future releases. As I am using 3G connection the jitter jumps occasionally over 250 ms causing irregular CW keying. If the delay could be set to 500ms it would help a lot. Any chance?

73 de Kari, OH2XX

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Re: CW Key delay
« Reply #1 on: 2013-10-15, 07:53:59 »
Yes CW is more sensitive  to Jitter. But do you really mean that it would be possible to do CW contesting if you have set CW delay to 0.5 sec ? I think we decide that 255 ms would be far more than enough. Isn't it possible to get a 4G connection instead  ?

73 de mike

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Re: CW Key delay
« Reply #2 on: 2013-10-15, 08:59:03 »
4G would be nice but it is not available at the location for the next 5-10 years I believe.

I do agree that 500 ms is a long delay and would affect the rythm considerably but it is better than 5-10 seconds of CW full of mistakes. Another option that I would like to try is the Winky emulator - I just did not get it working. Please see another message that I posted under the configurations discussons yesterday.

73 de Kari
« Last Edit: 2013-10-15, 13:48:57 by oh2xx »