[600MRG] QRSS CW Keyer

[Frank Lotito]

ref:  http://www.kent-engineers.com/codespeed.htm

I am looking for a few Internet references on home brewed circuits, or kits which are designed for sending CW at QRSS speeds, e.g., 1,3,10,etc seconds per dot.  

I do own the Unified Microsystems XT-4B CW Beacon Keyer and MFJ 452 keyboard keyer.  They are both definitely suitable and reliable for beacon keying at speeds of 5 WPM and greater. For my QRSS sending interests I use a very old Windows XP laptop running ON7YD's QRS program.  The XT-4B and MFJ-452 manufacturers indicate that there is no practical way to S-L-O-W  D-O-W-N  their products to QRSS speeds.  

To streamline my system, I'd like to replace the laptop with a keying device suitable for QRSS speeds, whose memory is reprogrammable, but non-volatile when the power is turned off, and will auto-start when power is turned back on. 

Besides a computer running ON7YD's program (and similar QRSS programs) what else might be available?  Going back to my college years when digital logic circuits were still made from discrete components using mostly "hollow-state" devices, I vaguely recall   something called a "ring counter" where you could trap a message.  I believe the incremental circuits were RST flip-flops...?  That's obscured by the fog of time -  

Thanks and 73 Frank K3DZ / WH2XHA