Bill,
I have been doing some QRQ practice over the last month or so for the
upcoming HST. At first, I was having a terrible time sending numbers
with my dual lever paddle. I tried a Vibrokey single lever paddle
(thanks to W8FJ for lending it to me), but after a few days, I
decided the dual lever paddle is much better. The problem with
signle lever paddle is the horizontal back and forth excursion is
just too great for the very high speeds.
Perhaps it would be different with a modern, precision-made single
lever paddle, but I'm not aware of one. I could be wrong, of course.
I've used a Bencher dual lever paddle (won at the last run of the
Dayton CW receiving contest in 1990) for many years. I recently got
a Begali paddle and the difference is amazing. The lack of play in
the paddles and the precise spacing adjustments are night and day.
We'll see if it helps me next month at the HST!
73,
Barry W2UP
P.S. Feel free to forward this to any of the other interested
reflectors of which I'm not a member.
On 17 May 2005 Bill Tippett wrote:
> I recently saw comments somewhere about
> K7JA "slapping'" the dual lever paddle during the
> Jay Leno show indicating he had learned on a
> single lever. This caused me to question whether
> dual paddle (iambic) keys are used by the transmit
> Champions of High Speed Telegrapy (HST) as
> determined in the annual IARU HST Championships.
> The simple answer is: NO.
>
> 73, Bill W4ZV
>
> Andrea, IZ4FHT wrote:
> >By the way, when I met Lazlo HA3NU (a guy who sets the keyer to
> 60wpm
> and calls it "slow" ;-) at a big italian hamfest in Pordenone a few
> weeks ago, he said he preferred single lever paddles, especially for
> truly extra-high speeds.
>
> W4ZV (in a PM to Lacy HA3NU):
>
> Very interesting! I noticed you were IARU Region 1
> coordinator for the HST Championships at one time. I've
> heard that many operators from former East Block countries
> prefer single paddle and wonder if you know if that is still
> true for the top HST championship results (in Transmit)? It
> appears many former East Block competitors still dominated
> the top TX results in 2004.
>
> I also prefer a single paddle and have never seen the
> benefit to switching to dual paddle. I'm just curious
> about what type of paddle the top HST TX guys use.
>
> 73, Bill W4ZV
>
> HA3NU's response:
>
> >Hi Bill,
> >
> >It was interesting to see how fast news go around the world ie. my
> >sentence about speed. Hi Hi To tell the true I said for 60 WPM (that
> >was set on the rig) "This is less than 60, it is approximately 50 WPM
> >only" 60 WPM is hard to TX for me too. You know it well, most of HST
> >competitors prefer single paddle and vast majority of top contesters
> >use home brew paddle! The 2004 results are still OK. The next World
> >Championship will be in June and may be new records will be born
> >again. Barry W2UP will be also there, I am almost daily contact him
> >by Email. Should you know other things of HST, I am redy to answer to
> >you.
> >
> >73 Lacy HA3NU
>
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