CW Machine Version 3.3.12

The CW Machine firmware and the CW Machine Manager have seen several enhancements since version 3.3.01 was introduced. Many of them were related to the Remote Control Option and not directly visible when you are are using the CW Machine as a local keyer. But several new features may be just what you have been asking for:

• The upper speed limit is now 75wpm (from 65wpm before)
   
• The dash/dot memory can now be switched off. If your first was trained in the old days, before this was a common feature of electroic keyers, the CW Machine may feel more familiar when you disable this feature. If you combine this with Iambic mode A, you have keying characteristics similar to the very first electronic keyers that used tubes ...
   

The new functions and many subtle enhancements are described in the documentation:

- CW Machine manual
- CW Machine Manager manual

Audit Function for CW Machine Keyer and Trainer

The Windows programs for both, the Keyer and the Trainer, now let you save the contents of the Monitor screen to a file for later analysis. The documentation has been updated, but the function is self-explanatory, and you need not download the latest documentation after an online update. You may, however, do so:

- CW Machine Manager manual
- CW Trainer Manager manual

CW Machine Version 3.2

This new version of the CW Machine firmware and the CW Machine Manager for Windows introduces several new functions:

• two new commands, \W and \K, let you to create messages for measurement purposes and for beacon signals with long key-down periods and long waits.  They also would allow you to create really slow QRSS signals, all the way down to 50 mpw (minutes per word, corresponding to 0.02 wpm!) - now, that is really slow even by QRSS standards, and probably not very practical ;-)
• in SSB mode the keyer now provides a 10-minute id timer alarm

The documentation reflects these additions, and it has also been improved in other areas.

After an online update to this new version, please download the latest version of the documentation - this will not happen automatically as part of the online update:

- CW Machine manual
- CW Machine Manager manual

CW Machine Version 3.1

This new version of the CW Machine firmware and the CW Machine Manager for Windows introduces a spectacular new function:  the CW Machine will now automatically recognize the call sign of another station in your outgoing transmission, without your “assistance” via the keypad as it was up to now.  It fully automatically creates a basic log record with enough information for awards and LotW, and it will scan the log for a prior contact with that station in real time - all you have to do is to run a “regular” QSO.  Many other functions have also seen subtle improvements, pushing the technological envelope probably as far as is possible in an electronic keyer.

After an online update to this new version, please download the latest version of the documentation - this will not happen automatically as part of the online update:

- CW Machine manual
- CW Machine Manager manual

CW Trainer Version 1.6

This new version of the CW Trainer firmware and the CW Trainer Manager for Windows has only one visible change: the substitution character for <as> is now ~.  But “under the covers” it is a significant update:  the keypad driver has been completely re-written to eliminate some idiosyncrasies that were inherent in the old implementation. The keypad will now feel and react like a keypad that is attached to a PC.

In addition the documentation has been clarified in several areas.

After an online update to this new version, please download the latest version of the documentation - this will not happen automatically as part of the online update:

- CW Trainer manual
- CW Trainer Manager manual

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