Enable QSK Full Break-in¶
QSK (full break-in) lets the radio receive between each dit and dah while transmitting CW. Enable it in the CWX Setup view so the radio switches to receive during the gaps in your sending.
Before you start¶
- Connect to a FLEX-8600 radio. The CWX panel requires an active radio connection.
- Set the active slice to CW, CWL, or CWU mode so the CWX panel is available.
Steps¶
- Open the CWX panel in the main window.
- Click Setup at the bottom of the panel to switch to the Setup view.
- Click QSK to toggle it on. The button highlights when active.
To turn QSK off, click QSK again.
What each control does¶
| Control | Behavior | Default | Setting key |
|---|---|---|---|
| QSK | Toggles QSK (full break-in) on or off. | Off | CwxQsk |
| Delay: | Inter-macro delay in milliseconds. | 5 | CwxDelay |
How Send and Live interact¶
In v0.9.2.1 the Send and Live buttons no longer act as a simple mutually exclusive group. Their behavior depends on the current state of the panel:
- Live is a toggle. Click it once to enable live character-by-character keying; click it again to disable it. The button's checked state always reflects the model's live state, even if the state was changed externally.
- Send behaves differently depending on whether Live is active when you click it:
- If Live is currently off, clicking Send submits the typed buffer immediately.
- If Live is currently on, clicking Send first turns live mode off and returns the panel to the normal send view. The buffer is not retransmitted, because some characters may already have been keyed character-by-character.
- Clicking Setup always turns live mode off before switching to the Setup view.