"Fabian Kurz" wrote in message
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Cecil Moore wrote:
Instead of a chip, wouldn't it make more sense
just to use a small subroutine in the CPU?

That's what most radios do these days. Some with
less-than-perfect priorities: The internal keyer
of one particular YAECOMWOD flagship transceiver
I recently had the pleasure to operate generated
broken CW if the processor had other tasks, like
starting the internal fan, to do...

About the topic in general: The cost of adding a
keyer is negligible, and no serious manufacturer
will even consider to omit it from their radios.

It *is* a selling point, no matter if people use
it or not...

73,
--
Fabian Kurz, DJ1YFK * Dresden, Germany * http://fkurz.net/

I recently bought a high end HF rig and would not have considered it
if it had been the same rig with no keyer built in.
My code skills have been lost from years of not using them, but now
that I don't have to gain a certain word speed to "upgrade" I have a
paddle and will be starting CW again. Ashame that a hobby that is
suppose to promote experimentation and communication had blocked
of so many frequencies for "elitist" use.
****************** Oh by the way straight from the
current ARRL QST April issue Page 12 "This Just In" "U.S. hams
who wish to operate with full privileges in European countries covered by
the
European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations
(CEPT) must now hold an Extra class licensee."******************
I was studying for my Extra, but if all it is to be, is another elitist" use
of
rules and reg's to validate the "high standing" of VEC's and 'higher ups'
then
maybe I should skip the Extra Class. I have heard OT's and many in the
Extra portions of the bands using as poor practices / illegal power / rude
and
foul language as in any other portions of the bands. If someone new or at
a
lower class licensee want so misbehave, restricting them to operate outside
Extra band plans will not create good manors and legal behavior. Didn't
anyone learn a thing from prohibition nearly a century ago. Same
philosophy.
73 Have a Nice Day