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Using the CW Keyboard

The CW Keyboard ONLY works with Kenwood radios that support ASCII CW commanding.

I am working on a more general solution to remoting CW for any radio, but that is not ready for prime time.

All actions are immediate. Typing into the text space will IMMEDIATELY send the text characters to the radio for transmission. If you type very fast, you will notice that this is not really instantaneous but reflects the keying speed selected. This is so not to overflow the radio command buffers.

The special characters supported are those in the Kenwood manual e.g. the ‘=’ is used for BT, etc.

Please enter your CALLSIGN in the top left MyCallsign box. This will be remembered for later use and will be used by the MACROs in this application..

This keying speed may be directly entered into this application (WPM box). NOTE that the keying speed my also be changed via your radio control interface.

The QSO Call is the callsign of the other station. It provides several useful capabilities

Can be used in a MACRO
Used to auto populate the LOGGING control
Provides DX information and will be used to auto-populate the ROTATOR control. See example on the left.

For convenience, there are 10 macro keys provided. These only provide simple functionality. If you wish more exotic MACRO capability, please investigate use of the TRX-Manager keyboard or possibly other products such as MixW.

Access to setting the MACRO is via the RIGHT CLICK of the mouse. Two substitutions are allowed:

<MC> is my call as set in the MyCallsign field
<OC> it the other callsign as set in the QSO Call field

There is not need for TX or RX commands, since everything is instantaneous.

The MACROS were intended to simplify repetitive tasks, e.g. CQ, sending your callsign in pileup, etc and NOT to be the ultimate in contest support!!

The MACROs can be initiated directly from the keyboard using the SHIFT-CNTL-1,2,etc keys

Sample Configurations

Setup