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Re: [CQ-Contest] Foot switches ?

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Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Foot switches ?
From: Gerry Treas K8GT <k8gt@arrl.net>
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 15:02:16 -0400
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Maybe.

Back in 2001, after I got my TS850, I decided to use VOX. The pencil rolled off the desk, I bent down to pick it up, hit my head on the desk edge, out came the expletive, CLICK went the VOX. Never again. <grin>

73, Gerry, K8GT


On 8/29/2013 10:21 AM, Cqtestk4xs@aol.com wrote:
I understand the use of foot switches in MS and MM and not using  VOX.  Am
I the only guy using VOX in single op?
Bill K4XS/KH7XS In a message dated 8/29/2013 1:53:23 P.M. Coordinated Universal Time,
W5OV@W5OV.COM writes:

Another  vote for the clipper  switch!

http://www.eham.net/reviews/detail/1810

The Clipper  switch has sufficient resistance.  Not too much - just  right.

Highly recommended.

I've been using them for over 30  years - yes, the same ones.

They're industrial-grade and they don't  spring apart in the middle of a
contest like those other cheap bent-metal  jobs do.

73,

Bob W5OV


-----Original  Message-----
From: CQ-Contest [mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com] On  Behalf Of
Joe
Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2013 1:41 PM
To:  cq-contest@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Foot switches  ?

The only problem I have with Any foot switch is that it takes too  little
force to activate it, so I have to either tighten the lifting  muscle in
the shins to keep from activating the switch or have the switch  like at
the side near the ball of the foot and use it in a rolling action  with
most of the weight of the foot resting on the floor..

Joe  wb9sbd
Sig
The Original Rolling Ball Clock
Idle  Tyme
Idle-Tyme.com
http://www.idle-tyme.com
On 8/28/2013 11:24 AM,  Tom Horton wrote:
For years I used an old j-38 key mounted on a piece  of 1/4 plywood. Also
have used a home made switch with two pieces of  aluminum and a spring,
$3.00
footswitch found a most any ham swapmeet, a  sewing machine foot switch and
one of the best things I ever had was  mounting a footswitch to the side of
the cubbyhole of my desk and using it  as a "knee" switch. It never slipped
away.
73 and happy  footswitching...
   tom K5IID

There is no joy  in Mudville!




K5IID Tom Horton   Hillsboro, TX
E sorter for ARRL W5 bureau
Same call for 57  years!


  ________________________________
   From: Charlie Gallo  <Charlie@TheGallos.com>
To: Katsuhiro Kondou  <kondou@voyackey.net>
Cc: cq-contest@contesting.com;  kh6lc@hotmail.com
Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2013 10:34 AM
  Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Foot switches ?

On 8/28/2013 Katsuhiro Kondou  wrote:


This is what I've been using since last  year's CQWW SSB at V26B.
  http://files.qrz.com/m/jh5ghm/CIMG8305.JPG
Nice looking - could  probably sell an article to say "Machinist Workshop"
here in the USA - they  do short articles on simple  items

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