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SECOND DITS FOR EXAMPLE, Q1 SELECTS QRSS3 OR 3 SECOND DITS, AND Q4
SELECTS 60 SECOND DITS.  ALTHOUGH ITS POSSIBLE TO SEND QRSS DIRECTLY
FROM THE KEYBOARD BY ENTERING A COMMAND BEFORE A STRING, THE MOST
EFFICIENT USE OF QRSS IS TO FORMAT A SPECIFC QRSS MESSAGE.  RTTY THE
K45 CAN BE CONFGURED TO OPERATE IN RTTY TRANSMIT MODE.  RECEIVE RTTY
IS NOT INCLUDED.  THE FORMAT IS FIXED TO BAUDOT FSK WITH MANY
OPTIONS.  TWO MENUS OF CHOICES ARE PROVIDED BY A KEYBOARD COMMAND
ESC R.  M MESSAGES AND MACROS A SET OF 12 MESSAGES, EACH 120
CHARACTERS LONG, CAN BE STORED SEE THE SIDEBAR, STORING AND EDITING
A MESSAGE, AT WWW.  ARRL.  ORG/QST IN DEPTH FOR MORE DETAILS.
HAVING A KEYBOARD MAKES IT EASY TO WRITE A MESSAGE, STORE IT, AND
EDIT IT.  TWO SETS OF MESSAGES CAN BE STORED.  THE UNIT ALLOWS
SETTING UP TWO USERS, AND YOU CAN TOGGLE BETWEEN THE TWO EVERY TIME
YOU PRESS CTRL U.  WHEN THE USER IS CHANGED, A BRIEF MESSAGE FASHES
ON THE STATUS LINE WHILE THE CURRENT CONFIGURATION IS CHANGED.  EACH
USER HAS CUSTOMIZED SETTINGS AND A MESSAGE LIST.  I SET UP A GROUP
OF MESSAGES FOR EVERYDAY OPERATING, INCLUDING BRIEF EXCHANGE
MESSAGES FOR WORKING HIT AND RUN DX CONTACTS.  I STORED AND CHANGED
MESSAGES AS USER 2 WITH THE REQUIREMENTS OF A CONTEST.  SERIAL
NUMBER INSERTION, CHAINING MESSAGE, AND REPEATING ARE ALSO SET WITH
KEYBOARD COMMANDS.  BEACON OPERATION IS SUPPORTED WITH THE ABILITY
TO SET SPACING, DELAYS, SPEEDS, AND REPETITION RATES.  KEY MAPPING
IS ALSO AVAILABLE.  A SET OF 20 PRESET PREMAPPED CHARACTERS IS
INCLUDED EACH CAN BE REMAPPED TO ANOTHER KEY.  CW SPEEDS TRANSMIT
KEYING RANGE IS SPECIFED AS 5 99 WORDS PER MINUTE, AND ROUNDING IT
OFF FOR FIVE LETTER GROUPS FIVE LETTERS PLUS ONE SPACE PER WORD
TRANSLATES TO APPROXIMATELY 600 LETTERS PER MINUTE MAXIMUM.  BUT
BEFORE YOU THINK USING A KEYBOARD WILL TURN YOU INTO A VERY HIGH
SPEED TRANSMIT OPERATOR, CONSIDER THAT MOST AVERAGE SKILLED PEOPLE
TYPE 190 200 LETTERS PER MINUTE OR 38 40 WORDS PER MINUTE.  HUNT AND
PECK TYPISTS, REMEMBER YOU WILL NOT BE ABLE TO TRANSMIT ANY FASTER
THAN YOU CAN TYPE THE INSTRUCTION BOOK SPECIFES THE CW READER AS DSP
BASED AND OPERATING OVER THE RANGE OF 7 60 WPM.  MY EXPERIENCE WITH
THE K45 WAS POSITIVE MY QTH IS ABOUT 50 MILES FROM W1AW.  THEREFORE,
ON 80 METERS AND SOMETIMES 10 METERS, W1AW WAS SOLID AND ERROR FREE,
AS THOUGH I WAS IN THE W1AW SHACK IN NEWINGTON, CONNECTICUT.
HOWEVER, AS EXPECTED, UNDER POOR CONDITIONS AND HIGH NOISE, THE
READER PUT OUT SOME RANDOM LETTERS.  OFTEN THE FIRST LETTER OF A
STRING OF LETTERS IS INCORRECT, AS ANY CW READER WILL NOT BE
SYNCHRONIZED TO THE INCOMING DOTS AND DASHES.  ONE OPERATOR I COPIED
HAD WHAT USED TO BE CALLED A MISSOURI SWING, AND TO MY SURPRISE THE
CW READER DID VERY WELL BETTER THAN I COULD, CERTAINLY.  WHAT IS
DIFFERENT FROM SOME OTHER CW READERS IS THE INSTANTANEOUS CONTROL
YOU HAVE.  THE CTRL AND ALT KEYS ARE USED TO MAKE CHANGES AS YOU
LISTEN AND COPY CTRL LEFT AND RIGHT ARROWS AUDIO GAIN ADJUSTMENT.  I
SET MY RIGS AUDIO OUTPUT TO 80 AND TRIMMED THE AUDIO LEVEL
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