Paul
You do yourself an injustice. You do enjoy redundancy, you
CAN use an iambic keyer with your single lever paddle, just
by using it conventionally. Actually it's good for
discipline in sending , as if you are sloppy ( as I do tend
to be), you will send garbage in that configuration.
I built my first W9TO keyer when the Beach Boys sang " God
only knows", and God only knows when that was ;-) That
collection of ECC83s ( was it?) and mercury wetted relay
still knocks most modern devices into a proverbial cocked
hat.
73
Clive
GW3NJW
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[mailto:cq-contest-bounces@contesting.com]On Behalf Of Paul
T. Antos
Sent: 20 October 2007 02:56
To: cq-contest@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Paddle Opinions
Clive wrote:
>
> So what the iambic operator doesn't seem to have is
> redundancy, because he took a short cut to sending CW by a
> method which imo has little to no value, but clearly has a
> demerit.
I have to admit that I don't have redundancy in this matter.
Mark me down for a whole bunch of demerits. I made my first
paddle for a homebrew TO keyer out of wood with TWO strips
of aluminum because it felt and played better. There was no
iambic at that time (that I knew of). Maybe a fat paddle is
what I need. I never ever heard anyone complain when I
called them in a contest. Straight keys for SSCW, anyone?
I guess what we should all be railing about is what the best
keyboard is for doing RTTY, huh?
Paul WB2ABD
SOC 764
(hey, I'm using up my self-imposed allotment of 6 yearly
posts to this reflector rather quickly)
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