CW

Put the radio in CW and the CW Keying group appears in the radio panel. The station keys the radio; you type.

Sending as you type

Click in the Type CW box and type. Each character is sent as you press it, and the text you've sent builds up in gray beside the box with a blinking cursor while the station is still sending. Letters are sent in upper case.

• ESC Abort or the Esc key stops sending at once.
• Clear wipes the sent-text display.
• … WPM sets the speed, 5 to 50 WPM (6 to 48 on Icom radios).
• … Hz sets the sidetone pitch, 400 to 800 Hz (300 to 900 on Icom radios).
• Repeat …s sets the interval used when a macro repeats, 1.0 to 10.0 seconds.

The transmit monitor level, MON in the Transmit group, controls how loud you hear your own sending.

Macros

Five macro buttons sit under the box, labelled F1 to F5. Click one or press its function key to send it. Hold Shift while pressing the function key and the macro repeats at the Repeat interval until you press Esc; the repeating macro's button turns green.

Edit Macros opens Tools → Console Settings → Macros, where each macro has a short Label and its CW Text. The text can contain substitutions that are filled in when you send:

Macros with no text are hidden from the panel. A separate set of CW Run Mode Macros drives the Log Entry panel's run mode, where Enter and Shift-Enter send the right message for the stage of the QSO; see Run mode and ESM.

Check RBN

Check RBN sends TEST TEST <yourcall> <yourcall> <yourcall> K and switches the toolbox to DX Spots filtered to the Reverse Beacon Network skimmers that heard you, so you can see where your signal is landing before you call. A banner reads Showing my RBN spots only.; Reset clears the spots and Done returns to the normal spot list. See DX spots.

Using a paddle or key

If you'd rather send by hand, the console takes a paddle or straight key over USB MIDI and keys the station with its built-in iambic keyer. See HaliKey and MIDI keys, and CTR2-MIDI for a controller with a built-in keyer and a tuning knob.