The paddle key mode may work for you this way: take a plastic ruler, fix it edge up, parallel to earth, fixed onto a board so that you use the natural elasticity of the plastic ruler for small movement of its free extremity to L or R. Fix not far from this extremity a bolt with a wire connecting to the ground ring (innermost) of the audio cable used into the “key” socket. Fix two screws on both sides L and R to the bolt of the ruler so that the small L and R movements make contact with these vertical screws screwed onto the flat wood carrying the whole design. Fix onto the left screw a wire connected to the middle ring of the audio cable and the right to the tip (exchange L and R if you prefer dashes on one side or other). Shortening the ground (innermost ring) of a hocked in “key” audio cable with one the other two rings will produce dots or dashes on auto mode. Cheers!
Bruce thanks for detailed vid and crystal swap arrangement idea! Do you know how do I change on mine the mode from automatic key to manual key mode? Oops, edit PS, I think you explain what I asked for :))) PS PS turning power on while holding down the key doesn’t change modes on mine :( lol PsPsPs I found how to change modes on the 51 model: shorten the ground and the middle ring on the stereo audio cable hooked into “key” and start keying by shortening the tip with the rest. The transmitter goes into straight key mode in about 5 secs!
Thanks I will try this. I think I have them all shorted when I turn it on and it goes into streight key mode but I will have to try your idea to get it in automatic mode
Bruce Weight If this works on your model (and mine is the”51” model) this would avoid you the need to pull and plug the power jack. BTW, on their “paddle” mode (on mine) if I want to make a few dashes I need to press them one by one, same for dots. It’s not like I press and hold and it does a sequence of signs by itself. With a slow speed though, if you type a few repetitious dashes or dots faster than the actual emitting, the machine will produce the sequence in its own speed even after you have stopped keying... Weird :D
After reading your piece I am going to have to do some experiments I think i had the ground shorted to middle and tip when I power up and then end up in streight key mode
Thank you very much Bruce !
The paddle key mode may work for you this way: take a plastic ruler, fix it edge up, parallel to earth, fixed onto a board so that you use the natural elasticity of the plastic ruler for small movement of its free extremity to L or R. Fix not far from this extremity a bolt with a wire connecting to the ground ring (innermost) of the audio cable used into the “key” socket. Fix two screws on both sides L and R to the bolt of the ruler so that the small L and R movements make contact with these vertical screws screwed onto the flat wood carrying the whole design. Fix onto the left screw a wire connected to the middle ring of the audio cable and the right to the tip (exchange L and R if you prefer dashes on one side or other). Shortening the ground (innermost ring) of a hocked in “key” audio cable with one the other two rings will produce dots or dashes on auto mode. Cheers!
Bruce thanks for detailed vid and crystal swap arrangement idea! Do you know how do I change on mine the mode from automatic key to manual key mode? Oops, edit PS, I think you explain what I asked for :))) PS PS turning power on while holding down the key doesn’t change modes on mine :( lol
PsPsPs I found how to change modes on the 51 model: shorten the ground and the middle ring on the stereo audio cable hooked into “key” and start keying by shortening the tip with the rest. The transmitter goes into straight key mode in about 5 secs!
Thanks I will try this. I think I have them all shorted when I turn it on and it goes into streight key mode but I will have to try your idea to get it in automatic mode
Bruce Weight If this works on your model (and mine is the”51” model) this would avoid you the need to pull and plug the power jack. BTW, on their “paddle” mode (on mine) if I want to make a few dashes I need to press them one by one, same for dots. It’s not like I press and hold and it does a sequence of signs by itself. With a slow speed though, if you type a few repetitious dashes or dots faster than the actual emitting, the machine will produce the sequence in its own speed even after you have stopped keying... Weird :D
After reading your piece I am going to have to do some experiments I think i had the ground shorted to middle and tip when I power up and then end up in streight key mode
. i dont even know i make it right or not. my 2 led seem not working , the paddle seem work fine , no antena to test
Hi, may a know where a configuration software is available? Many thanks.
The KC9ON website has a lot of info on it and the software which is only half chinese half English.