Settings
Speed, tone and volume are set in each tool, and each tool remembers its own.
Keyer Setup…
Your key or paddles, the adapter they’re plugged into, and a place to test them. Used by Keyer Practice and QSO Practice (under Send) and by Jeopardy.
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Keyer Setup
Plug your key or paddles into a Vail or VBand adapter, plug the adapter into this device with USB, and choose your setup below.
Adapter
Vail adapter
VBand adapter
No adapter (keyboard / screen)
Radio sidetone (audio input)
Input method
Keyboard (Ctrl keys)
MIDI (Chrome / Edge)
Key type
Paddles — iambic B
Paddles — iambic A
Straight key
Bug (semi-automatic)
Keyer speed (for this testing panel only)
Sidetone
Audio input
Input level yellow line = key down
Send a long dah or two: the app finds your sidetone’s pitch by itself.
Turn the radio’s sidetone up until the meter passes the yellow line when you key, and set the interface’s input gain so it stays out of the red. Find the pitch again
Keyer Practice, QSO Practice and Jeopardy listen to your radio too, while they’re on screen.
iPhone or iPad tip: if you hear a system tone when you send several dits or dahs, change Settings › General › Keyboard › Dictation Shortcut to anything but Control (Command works). The adapter’s dits and dahs are Control presses, and pressing Control twice starts dictation.
Vail adapter tip: if you’ve used vailmorse.com since plugging the adapter in, unplug it and plug it back in. The Vail site switches the adapter to a mode where it stops sending key presses, and it stays that way until it’s replugged.
Test your key
Send anything. The lights show each contact closing, and the decoder below shows the letters it heard.
Speed —
Clear
DIT
DAH
Diagnostics
Last input —
Audio delay —
Radio input delay —
Key events Key presses and releases appear here as you send. Copy key events MIDI ports MIDI not in use.
MIDI log Messages to and from the adapter appear here when MIDI is the input method. Copy log Keyboard vs MIDI Shown only if one press arrives by both routes. A Vail adapter in MIDI mode stops sending keyboard presses, so compare the two by recording key clicks and sidetone with a microphone instead.
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