Why is there no remote CW sidetone option?

Conrad N5CR

K1ESE

W5AP

I've ordered a K4

[Deleted User]

I'm not even sure Flex listens to its customer base. Nothing ever matured yet with the survey of "most important" had to haves that was done I think 6 months ago. I don't believe anyone asked for profile saving on the fly. But it got put in and seems not too many like it.Noise mitigation has been an issue FOREVER.  I too have a K4 on order. 

They may listen but acting on something is a different thing

John - AI4FR

Bill -VA3WTB

Geoff AB6BT

Tom OK1DWQ

> @"Conrad N5CR" said:
> I use N1MM+ and WinKeyer USB for remote CW contesting.  By "remote" I mean about 800' from my house over a fiber Gb LAN.  About 99% of what I send is by using the N1MM+ function keys, and the other 1% is done by typing into the N1MM+ CW Key window.  It is beyond me why Flex doesn't have an option to send the CW sidetone along with the receiver's audio over the LAN.  I don't care about the latency.  I just want to confirm that I sent what I think I sent, in case I hit the wrong key.  WHO IS THE BUREAUCRAT AT FLEX THAT THINKS FLEX'S CUSTOMERS ARE TOO DUMB TO TURN OFF THE SIDETONE IF THE LATENCY BOTHERS THEM?  This idiocy has been going on for years, and needs to stop!Conrad N5CR 

I not found this issue in New Idea tikets with huge votes... only few member... that is why I think that nobody want it :wink: ... sorry.

Mark Aaker K6UFO

Please submit a bug report to Flex. If they reject it as "working as intended" then please file a "New Idea/Enhancement Request".

It seems quantity of requests on this topic has not reached a high enough level to merit work by Flex.

Mark K6UFO

W1XYZ

I use the little speaker that is in the Winkeyer USB box and don't worry about the sidetone anymore, but there are good points about CW being made, and I think they are very fixable. One improvement would be to produce a smoother demodulated CW note with a high bitrate on Rx, for example. Perhaps this project could be in parallel with a sidetone feature? Now that I run a spare 6400 dedicated 630M remotely, with a high gain LDMOS amp at the Xverter output, I wouldn't mind these enhancements. There isn't much SSB on 630. de W1XYZ