CW Cable For Hybrid Transceivers Using Solid State Relay

Well, the title says it all.

The cable is built around the NEC’s PS7205B-1A SSR, which is with GaAs LED input and optically-coupled dual MOSFET output.

The schematic is simple. The only caution is that the C2 — the capacitor at KEYING side, must be rated at 100V. This is because in TS-830S for example, the keying voltage is around -65V.

I have been using this cable with my Kenwood TS-830S, N1MM+ and UCX Log for about three months with no issues whatsoever, with high RF levels in the shack, because my antenna is a multiband dipole with a transmatch.

The CW keying is stable with no distortion in the sent characters even at high speeds.

 

The white jumper /JP1 on the schematic/ is for selecting the CW pin from the PC’s COM Port — 4 or 7 /RTS or DTR/.