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Is there any software, other than Rocky, that uses the key input on an Ensemble RXTX? As a bonus, is the latency low enough to use it with a side-tone? Seems like everything I've seen so far requires the CW key to be connected to the PC somehow.

TIA,
Brent, AB1LF

On 26/09/2021 00:21, Brent DeWitt wrote:

Is there any software, other than Rocky, that uses the key input on an Ensemble RXTX?

As a bonus, is the latency low enough to use it with a side-tone?

Depends how fast you can send CW! OK up to 25wpm here. Over that I would use a hardware sidetone.

HTH

73
Nick

I must need to dig further into Quisk. While I have installed it under both Windows and Linux, I haven't discovered how to configure it to use the key input from the SoftRock. Thanks for encouraging me to take a deeper look!

Best to ask on the n2adr-sdr group on groups.io if you get stuck.
When you click on the config button, the Config screen allows you to setup various radios. Softrock is the default just that you will have to specify the ttyUSB port, audio devices and other stuff like samplerate.

There is a "Help With Radios" tab where there is a great description of the setup procedure.
The setup is automatically saved, just restart quisk and you are good to go.
73 ... Sid.

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I use an external iambic keyer to key one line of the key input jack. The keyer has a hardware sidetone which I prefer to use > 25wpm.

This gives me semi break in operation with quisk and the softrock.

You might want to take a look at

/g/n2adr-sdr

Thanks all for the advice. I will continue my question in the Quisk .io group. Still don't see a way to configure the Ensemble's key input for transmit, but I'll get there!
73,
Brent, AB1LF

On 29/09/2021 14:11, Brent DeWitt wrote:

Still don't see a way to configure the Ensemble's key input for transmit

CW just works with quisk - not much configuration needed

Brent,

To the best of my knowledge, there is no way to use the "Paddle" jack on a Softrock RXTX to generate CW. It has been quite a few years since I went down the road that you are now on. I found nothing back then. Seems like it was a RXTX "To-Do" item that was never completed. With a lot of help from the two gentlemen mentioned below, who knew much more about the RXTX than I did, a latency free solution which allowed the direct keying of the Softrock RXTX by using HDSDR and an external keyer that provides the sidetone was developed. All of that history is available here. What is in these posts is better than my memory of all of the details.

Search the forum using "K3JZD" and you will come up with message threads from late 2014 and early 2015 that discuss a method of direct keying the RXTX that was flushed out by Warren 9V1TD and Alan G4ZFQ.

In spite of some of the message titles, it is Semi Break In, not Full Break In. The HDSDR software will not support Full Break In, and that software is not open source. I have implemented this Semi Break In system, and I have successfully used my RXTX units for many CW contacts and during many QRP/QRPp events since then, without finding any shortcomings with this approach..

73,
Jody - K3JZD

Search the forum using "K3JZD" and you will come up with message threads from late 2014 and early 2015 that discuss a method of direct keying the RXTX that was flushed out by Warren 9V1TD and Alan G4ZFQ.

Jody

That's reminded me, some of those links here and some other methods.

73 Alan G4ZFQ