Dallas.
After sending with my right hand for 25 years, with a single lever paddle,
an entrapped nerve in my right arm, forced me in 1980 to learn a new way, or
give up CW altogether.
So, over the course of a month, I learned to send left-handed. My
Ascension Island compatriot, Glenn K6NA/ZD8A, said at the time, "Jim, if
you're going to learn left-handed, why not learn squeeze at the same time".
So, I bought a Bencher, and its now been left-handed iambic for the past 22
years. The conversion was really easy and "starting over" with the lefty,
make squeeze feel very natural.
Give it a try, you'll like it.
Jim N6TJ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dallas Carter" <ludal@dmv.com>
To: <cq-contest@contesting.com>; "Bud Hippisley, K2KIR" <k2kir@telenet.net>
Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 5:59 AM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Non-Iambic keyers???
> Hi Bud,
> For one, I have never been able to send with an Iambic paddle.
> Some would say that I can't send with a straight paddle either,
> but that's for another thread.
> When I was in Thailand, a friend made for me a gold plated
> bencher clone with my name and Thai call embossed on the top.
> It's a really cool paddle, and a treasure, but I couldn't send with
> it. I fashioned a paddle handle out of a piece of 1/2 inch plexiglass
> and shaved it down to fit between the two iambic paddle arms.
> With the arms bolted together, it performs like a straight paddle.
>
> Photo on request..
>
> 73 Dallas W3PP
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Bud Hippisley, K2KIR <k2kir@telenet.net>
> To: <cq-contest@contesting.com>
> Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2002 6:40 PM
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] Non-Iambic keyers???
>
>
> > Does anyone know of any currently available electronic keyers that allow
> the operator to choose something other than an iambic algorithm?
> >
> > In particular, I'm interested in keyers that, when used with double
> paddles, might implement either "dash override" (as did the old (K2)POO
> Keyer) or "last paddle closed", as in the venerable Ultimatic.
> >
> > I know I'm not the only one who finds iambic a very unfriendly algorithm
> for double paddles, but I'm surprised at the lack of chatter about
> alternatives.
> >
> > Bud, K2KIR
> >
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>From KØHB" <K0HB@ARRL.ORG Tue Dec 3 05:02:38 2002
From: KØHB" <K0HB@ARRL.ORG (KØHB)
Subject: [CQ-Contest] Short contest calls.
References: <200212030114.gB31E7vh009314@contesting.com>
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Message-ID: <015701c29a89$4d472360$7e10be3f@bigguy>
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Notarius WN3VAW" <wn3vaw@fyi.net>
> Oh yes, Hans is right -- Hawaii was K6. Before World War II. That's
> irrelevant to today's contesting, tho an interesting if trivial fact. I
> don't know whether or not there's an ITU or FCC regulation mandating the use
> of the appropriate prefix in this type of situation, tho I'm sure if there
> is , sooner or later someone will dig it up.
The notion that amateurs in Hawaii are assigned a prefix of AH/KH/WH/NH/(6)(7)
is an arbitrary construct of US INTERNAL regulations, and has no official
international standing. That they can keep that prefix when they move to some
other spot in the United states is a fact -- you'll just have to deal with it.
KH2D is fully within his rights to keep that call, and is not under any
regulatory obligation to sign any cumbersome tacked-on prefix/suffix.
"Tim Makins, EI8IC" <contesting@eircom.net> says:
> And what right have they got to waste the time of busy people
> like Jim AD1C and others who have to track them down and
> enter them into the .cty lists ???
The ".cty" list are a crutch for computer operators. Radiomen understand how to
copy Zone numbers.
> Whatever the reasons for holding on to their cherished or 'cool'
> callsign, I would like them banned from all future contests.
Perhaps persons who rely on ".cty" lists should be banned from all future
contests.
With all kind wishes,
de Hans, K0HB (ex-KG6AQI)
Grand Exhalted Liberator or the Electric Smoke
--
"Everything not specifically prohibited is mandatory."
-- Some Control Freak
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