DIGI KEYER II - microHAM

microHAM © 2010 All rights reserved7 - EXTERNAL KEYBOARD/KEYPADNOTE: The keyboard or keypad must be PS/2. A USB device with PS/2 adapter will not work properly.DIGI KEYER II includes the ability to generate CW/FSK or record and play CW/FSK messages using akeyboard or numeric keypad connected to the PS/2 jack. A numeric key pad will allow recording/playingCW messages, control CW speed (WPM) or play a serial number message. “Live” CW/FSK (RTTY) orstoring FSK messages requires a full keyboard.Switching modes:The keyboard or keypad mode will follow the mode of the transceiver. If the radio is not computercontrollable or its control protocol is not supported, the keyboard or keypad can be used to switch Router'smode if the “radio” selection is “no radio (mode selected manually).”Playing messages:STATUS INDICATIONNUM CAPS SCROLL play/rec modeOFF x x playbackON x x recordingx OFF OFF CWx OFF ON DIGITALx ON OFF FSKA message is started by pressing F1-F9 on the keyboard or 1-9 on the number pad. A message can beaborted with the ESC key or the zero key on the number pad. Messages may be made to repeat (loop) bypressing DEL (period) on the number pad while the message is playing. The default (minimum) wait timeafter ending a message before starting again is one second. The pause time may be set from 1 to 9seconds by entering the desired delay immediately after pressing DEL. For example, 1 5 will startmessage number 1 and cause it to repeat with five a second delay. Pressing zero (0) will terminate amessage loop.Recording messages:Recording is started (and stopped) by pressing NUM LOCK. To start recording, press NUM LOCK followedby the number of the message to be recorded. To abort a message without saving, press zero on thenumber pad or Escape. To end recording and save the message press NUM LOCK.In CW, DK II stores characters as they are echoed from the internal WinKey: only those characters actuallytransmitted are stored. However, CW messages may be recorded from either paddles or the keyboard.The gap “|” and other WinKey commands cannot be entered from the keyboard but may be used inmessages loaded from Router’s CW/FSK Messages tab.In FSK, all characters entered from the keyboard are stored.38