As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. 🔥 Printed Circuit Board Holder #1: 🔥 Printed Circuit Board Holder #2: 🔥 Weller Solder Iron: 🔥 Work Bench found Here: My favorite ham gear: 🔥 Sling Shot 4 tree antenna: 🔥 Arborist Throw Box: 🔥 Throw Bag2: 🔥 Tree Antenna Weight: 🔥 Xiegu G90 HF Radio: 🔥 Portable Speaker: Solder Station 🔥 Work Bench found Here: 🔥 Weller Solder Iron: 🔥 Printed Circuit Board Holder #1: 🔥 Printed Circuit Board Holder #2: I got the WinKeyer to bring my CW skills to the next level. Practice on the computer or anywhere. WinKeyer is a low-cost full featured external Morse keyer capable of being fully controlled via a USB interface. It enables software developers to create a fully integrated Morse keyer within their programs, which will operate with Windows XP, Win7, Win8, and now Win10. It ensures accurately timed CW letters and strings no matter what the host PC is doing. A Bit of History Few, if any, serious contesters or DXers would contemplate operating without using a computer-based logging program these days. Contest logging was one of the first serious Amateur Radio applications to appear on the PC and within a few years there were many excellent logging programs on the market. Virtually all of these programs had two things in common: 1. They were DOS-based 2. They offered some form of CW keying The DOS environment lent itself well to the task of internal CW generation. Firstly, it was possible to capture the internal system clock and harness it to provide the timing for the code generator. Second, DOS inherently supported an interrupt system, which provided an easy way to implement CW keying as a background task. Finally, unfettered access to the parallel or serial port meant that the key output could be easily interfaced to the rig. All this changed with the advent of Windows. Indeed it is fair to state that the huge step forward that Windows represented to the general PC user was at least equalled for Radio Amateurs by the step backwards in CW keying capability. Windows is a multi-tasking operating system which means that the CPU is shared between many different tasks. This makes it very difficult to accurately time CW due to constant task switching. This results in unevenly timed dits and dahs. For example, in the middle of a word you might have an R with a really long dah in the middle or an A that sounds more like an M. WinKeyer is specifically designed to completely overcome this problem. By off loading CW generation to a separate dedicated microcontroller, all the timing problems disappear. Applications running on the PC send ASCII letters to Winkeyer for conversion to Morse, allowing them to focus on more important things. Winkeyer provides several other crucial features. An external speed control allows the operator to tweak speed based on operating conditions. Having the ability to run fills with a paddle is essential and Winkeyer provides that also. Finally, to add a level of safety, Winkeyer isolates the PC from the the radio with optocouplers and provides two sets of KEY/PTT outputs for two radios. Winkeyer provides full control of CW timing and keying options all programmable from the PC. To add to Winkeyer's utility, a standalone mode is included which means it is a full featured CW keyer able to be operated without a PC connection.