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Beautiful key, great video and incredible live display on the left. I've just started learning cw with a Morserino & a Bamatech TP-3. Now, I have a beginner question: does the pitch of the cw "sound" affect the amount of data being transmitted? I hear a lot of very high pitch sounds on POTA / QRP videos, is there a technical reason or is it just personal preference? I'm asking for a friend who has tinnitus and struggles with very high pitch sounds... 😉 Cheers! 73 de 2E0HJN / Essex County / UK

You’re so underrated can you recommend me a speed cube brand pls

There’s not much to it, but here’s some code (haven’t checked in the local Phi-3 version, but same basic idea)… github.com/AshleyF/sandbox/blob/main/llm/home.py

Hey. This has a lot of potential. Are you planning into explaining how to do it? open source it? Thanks a lot. or even do a tutorial on it and put the code behind Patreon so you get something in return for your work Thanks!

Why is there 2 modes in the first place? There must be a reason.

Any idea on making this open source?

Very nice, could you release a how to video? Thanks!

Very cool! I wonder if openai is gonna release a faster version of whisper to reduce the latency.

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Beginner here. Showing my ignorance, can you switch modes on the same keyer? Or, do you have to buy one versus the other keyer with the different modes already setup?

One of the best keyed vids. Thanks. I have a couple dual lever Keydets but always tried learning w/ iambic B. I prefer my straight old fashioned key. Probably because it works for me but I find it tiring in a long QSO. I’ll pull out my hardly ever used Begali and try Ultimatic, although I’ll need to find that old Winkeyer too!

My kind of video! Thanks for taking the time to create the paddle diagrams at the left. If you haven't ever tried it, you might want to play with the OZ mode, which is a variation of Ultimatic that repeats dahs on squeeze instead of the last pressed paddle. Many characters are the same as Ultimatic. You lose the ability the squeeze X, but you gain the ability to squeeze C (a biggie) with OZ.

Very nice 😀

5:44 "I'll do the same exact motion it'll produce a R" you can see you've squeezed differently, it'd be a K had you done it the same, but point taken ;) Thanks for the video! I had no idea actually... I always thought Iambic A/B was about being left handed or right handed lol

Ultimatic looks neat, but I have no setting in my K3 for it, unfortunately. Also, I have yet to discern the differnence between iambic A and B. They act identically for me.

Amazingly well produced and revealing video.

thanks for your videos! so, what key is this? it looks like a begali, but i can't find this model on their site.

personally i like Iambic A better.

They do now. I just used it!

"the fifteen minute limit for CZcams" 😢 those were simpler times

Very cool! I alway preferred the circular slide rule, just seems to work better in your hands.

nice... very nice !

wow Epic morse key !

Dot it's my favorite too!!!!

For me this command f: 4a don't work in neovim. i.imgur.com/XYCkZFs.png

Very coole, i didn't know about this trick

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This is really cute and fun to see. What a great present- not just the cube, but a very personal guide to solving it! Kayden if you're reading this, good luck with the cube and have fun!!

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I miss my HP 42S. 😞

If you don’t squeeze key should you a single lever paddle?

After watching this superb presentation I looked at some of the keyers @ hamcrafter2 and I see he has three options for Ultimatic mode in the setup. Normal, dit-priority and dah-priority. Which one of the three would you recommend?

I think you solved my problem trying to squeeze. Thank you.

Ever since you showed me this - years ago - I've been on the lookout for one. Great Vid, thanks for sharing how to use it!

This kind of video is very difficult to make - giving a pattern visual in the left hand side along with the audio and simultaneous live fingering on the video, AND talking and commenting at the same time! And, yes, that key cost you a small fortune on its own, didn’t it? Although at your level of expertise you can make a rat trap sound like a Begali. Great work, keep it up.

I could hardly contain my laughter! What if you had to keep providing -even just the usual- QSO text? To send continuously in QSOs, not to mention contests, is the practice itself! Then, you have no time to think about dots and dashes!

Excellent presentation. I highly appreciate it in every detail. Thank you very much! 73 de Tom, HA5CST

Can you share the software/hardware you use to display the key timing on your computer screen?

I got introduced to Forth back in the early 80s. At that time real compilers were expensive and still difficult to use. I bought FigForth. It was double threaded. I remember tracing through Forth with a debugger. It wasn't symbolic then. I was using CP/M. I remember looking at the trace and counting the ratio of opcodes that did real work to those that just did the overhead. Direct threading makes more sense. However, at that time I couldn't find any complete direct threading packages. Later I did make a byte code interpreter that was efficient but it used a real compiler to generate the byte codes. The problem was the the compilers is difficult to maintain as it is more traditional but no one wanted to program in Forth. One time I went to a customer's site and they were using Forth for control. by Forth Inc. It was easy to try new things. What I hated was the dreaded stack crash. I would have provided a side by side comparison of a double vs single threaded Forth so people could see how more efficient the single threaded Forth is.

This is exactly what I was looking for. Liked and subscribed!

I don't see an Ultimatic Mode in my Yaesu FTDX10. Am I missing something?

I have been coming back to this video again and again and it is by far the best explanation of keying modes out there. Thank you for your amazing presentation skills on such a niche technical topic. By the way, what mode did you use before learning ultimatic? Did it take you long to switch to it? Your arguments towards the reduced effectiveness of the iambic modes are very strong, although some of the issues you mention could be fixed by using winkeyer and its more advanced timing settings.

Hey Ashley, great video with awesome graphics! I agree with you about Iambic B timing being difficult when keying faster. I kept getting unwanted extra dits at the end of my characters and this was causing a lot of mistakes on the air. I got so frustrated that I switched back to Iambic A. I didn't really know much about Ultimatic keying but I am definitely going to give it a try. Thank you very much for such a high quality video. 73 DE VE3IGS

My IC-705 has a dumb-ass IAMBIC "B" Mode built in keyer with ZERO options to change it - and with ICOM's version there is literally NO WAY to get away with a squeeze during an "A" -- you will get an "R" every time. I even tried at 5 WPM so I could try to get the squeeze released during the initial Dit, but the built in keyers "helpful" memory ignores this an changes your "A" to an "R" anyway. If I had known that ICOM was so STUUUUUPID, I would never have bought the IC-705. Thank God I found out before purchasing a companion IC-7300 desktop radio. I bought the Yaesu FT-710 instead of the IC-7300 specifically because of this issue. The Yaesu FT-710 isn't perfect either, because the Mode A implementation doesn't seem to have memory, so it will only accept Dit or Dah insertion during a squeeze if you get the timing right -- but this is still better than dealing with ICOM's Mode B Clown-Show Radios (how many extra unwanted Dit's and Dah's can we get into this funny little car! Oh, look they're still coming ! ). I guess I can live with the lack of memory on FT-710 Mode A keyer for now, but it's pretty disappointing that you have to choose between ICOM's crappy Mode "B" injecting unwanted Dits and Dahs into your sending, and Yaesu's no-memory Mode "A" causing dropped Dits and Dahs when you are sending fast - Hobson's Choice. You would think that something as basic as a CW keyer is something that companies that claim to manufacture world class amateur radios could get right, but apparently not . . .

Have you tried the Ultimatic mode in the Open Source Arduino based K3NG keyers ? I'd be interested in your thoughts . . .

What a fantastic video. I love the graphics on the left. Wondering how you do that ?!?

Well over a decade ago! Jeez.. I want to make a more complete version of this again...

i've just got myself a keyer from Kanga Kits that does ultimatic mode, based on these videos. (xiegu G90 does not have ultimatic mode). BTW, for QRP work, the QCX Mini from QRP Labs has ultimatic.

Single lever paddle for the win!