V1.0 next week - why the rush?

For those of us not using an external keyer, there are definitely issues running 22+ WPM reliably on 0.16.4. All you need to do to reproduce this is to find someone who can send at 25 wpm with an iambic and to have them send a paragraph of text. It drops the occasional bit. I know that sounds trivial, but to need to buy a $100 keyer after dropping $4k on a state of the art radio is maddening. Having to insist that there is, indeed, a problem and having it labeled "not serious" gives me concern. I have a KX3 and an Icom IC-7100 here on my desk and they follow the key perfectly at 25 wpm. My Flex 6500 does not.

This is an interesting point! Honestly, I have never paid attention to "Auto Character Space" setting in PSDR. I will try playing with this later today with my Flex-3000 radio and post a brief report. 73! de Paul RN3A

Gerald et all, As promised, here is a brief report on PSDR CW keyer settings vs. SSDR. By DEFAULT PSDR has the following set of options available and Enabled / Disabled: Iambic - On (Box checked) Sidetone - ON Reverse Paddles - Off 2 wire Cable - off Mode B - On Mode B strict - Off Auto Mode Switch - Off Strict Character Space - Off With these settings keying in PSDR did not create any problems at any speed. After I checked "Mode B Strict" - there were some problems with keying, most likely because of my technique. I started to notice this after 40 WPM. When enabling Strict Character Space - the picture was very similar to what we have seen in 6000 - extra spaces, lost chars, etc. However, it still allowed me to do "recover', i.e. send a series of Dots any time I would like to do it after the symbol I consider to be erroneous. I think we are somewhere close to the root cause... SSDR currently has only A/B mode switch.. And this is just about it.. Steve has mentioned that Keyer part of the code is something imported from PSDR with almost no change. Why then not to add all options like in PSDR? Or is there a big reason not to do it at this point? IMHO - this needs to be added now, before v1 release and let ALPHA / Preview testers try it, the more people can do it - the better. CW keying MUST be impeccable, whatever it takes to make it such! Even at the cost of additional delays for v1 official release. Apologies for this, I am just your customer who cares, and, of course, I want to have the best Radio on the market. ASAP, as usual! )))))) 73! de Paul RN3A