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Keyboard CW 2

 

Before the conversation degenerates I would to say,
the Terminal program does work well to generate messages.
So thank you on that Hans. I can for the time being go
into terminal mode and create Emergency messages as well as
some standard QSO's.? In the future perhaps Terminal Mode can be expanded
to keyboard CW and a computer is not much bigger than a keyboard.?
or incorporated into the Radio. And there is always, the ability
to use the key at anytime during message sending.?
GOOD REASON TO BUY A QMX AND QMX+. EASY TO ENTER MESSAGES IN TERMINAL MODE.
 

On Thu, Jul 18, 2024 at 10:34 PM, George Korper wrote:
I can for the time being go
into terminal mode and create Emergency messages as well as
some standard QSO's
What emergency messages ?
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Hans - please send more 1k2 resistors, the kit is short ;-)
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- 73 de Andy -
 

Really,? you want Hans to send common value resistors to you from Turkey?? At the prices he gets, we all need to help out and refrain for asking for common parts that are easily available.? ?After all, we are hams aren't we?? Requests like this eventually drive prices up.? Try not to do it.
 

Very funny boys:
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With a GPS in the radio, a prepper,
might consider, when alone on a POTA site for instance. SOS, name, location as important if the need arises when all else fails.?
Part of the franchise the US radio ham is granted by the FCC, includes?
Emergency services. Many times a year radio hams save lives and contribute hours of their time to be prepared. No joke.
 

Hi Doug

> Really,? you want Hans to send common value resistors to you from Turkey???

Thanks but it's OK OM, Andy was just joking, giving a sarcastic example of what kind of emergency message might need to be sent... "Hans - please send more 1k2 resistors, the kit is short ;-)". In any case QMX/QMX+ contain no through-hole resistors and in fact none of the QRP Labs kits have a through-hole 1.2K resistor :-D

73 Hans G0UPL



On Fri, Jul 19, 2024 at 2:55?AM Doug Hendricks via <ki6ds1=[email protected]> wrote:
Really,? you want Hans to send common value resistors to you from Turkey?? At the prices he gets, we all need to help out and refrain for asking for common parts that are easily available.? ?After all, we are hams aren't we?? Requests like this eventually drive prices up.? Try not to do it.
 

Hi George
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Before the conversation degenerates I would to say,
the Terminal program does work well to generate messages.
So thank you on that Hans. I can for the time being go
into terminal mode and create Emergency messages as well as
some standard QSO's.? In the future perhaps Terminal Mode can be expanded
to keyboard CW and a computer is not much bigger than a keyboard.?
or incorporated into the Radio. And there is always, the ability
to use the key at anytime during message sending.?
GOOD REASON TO BUY A QMX AND QMX+. EASY TO ENTER MESSAGES IN TERMINAL MODE.

It's already my intention in the future (AFTER the SSB) to add a CW screen to the terminal tools, which shows decoded text and allows you to key in CW etc via the keyboard.?

Back to what?Zhenxing said, about the USB port on the QMX yes, it is configured currently as a USB Device. However on the STM32F446 this peripheral may be configured instead as a USB Host port. Therefore it IS technically possible that in future QMX firmware could have a new feature to allow QMX to host a USB keyboard.

73 Hans G0UPL
 

Hans,
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In the meantime would you consider enabling the KY CAT command like on the QCX*?
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73, Mike KK7ER
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Oops, I just saw that Hans answered my question on a different thread.? Great timing!
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Hans wrote:
Now some of those CAT commands were inherited into QDX CAT commands, and later QDX CAT was inherited into QMX. Unfortunately QMX doesn't yet handle KY (and perhaps other CW details) because of the inheritance route of the code modules through QCX->QDX->QMX... however this is just an anomaly and will be resolved, in fact it's even quite high on my QMX ToDo list to make KY work properly on QMX. So won't be long I hope.?
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Carry on.
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73, Mike KK7ER
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...and a computer is not much bigger than a keyboard
George, if you just want to send CW to QMX from a computer, I have a workaround. As Robert Giuliano KB8RCO mentioned in your original thread,
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It seems to me that "the timing" is what the "keyer" is all about, and most radios today already have a keyer built in.?
Would it be any easier to use 2 pins and code the keyer outputs (left paddle/right paddle) for ASCII characters ?than time the actual dits and dahs?
I have an Arduino program does exactly that. Basically it's a keyer that emulates an iambic paddle (instead of a straight key). It takes an ASCII string from computer via the serial port and send the CW symbols via 2 pins - dit and dah, to any radio's paddle input. The only requirement is that the WPM setting of the radio's internal keyer must be consistent with this program. If you can't wait for Hans to implement the KY command for QMX, maybe you can try my approach. BTW you can use diodes to 'OR' the keyer's outputs with a normal paddle's tip and ring, so the radio can be keyed from both sides.
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73 de Zhenxing N6HAN

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