[CQ-Contest] Heil FS-2 Foot Switch

[Milt Jensen]

Mine is actually a "thigh" switch.  I bought a package of the Radio Shack,
large, momentary button switches and mounted them in small "Rubbermaid" cups
(the wife wouldn't let me use the good Tupperware stuff").

After attaching a cord with proper mating plug to interface with my radio's
PTT circuit, I mounted the switch assembly to the inside of the knee well on
the desk using the wife's hot glue gun.  Boy, those craft tools sure come in
handy.

I have had to take the assembly apart two times, a couple of years apart, to
clean the contacts.  A better quality switch would probably last a lot
longer.

I have a foot switch made in a like manner, in a "Rubbermaid" dish mounted
on a sloped piece of 1" x 4" board, with a piece of 2" x 4" under the rear
to lift the switch to a comfortable angle and a piece of 2" x 4" at the
front to rest the foot on until the PTT action is required.  Looks horrible
but works great.

Good luck de Milt, N5IA

----- Original Message -----
From: "aluscre" <aluscre at neo.rr.com>
To: "Tom Horton" <k5iid at ntelos.net>
Cc: "Richard Thorne" <rthorne at tcac.net>; <cq-contest at contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 9:01 PM
Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Heil FS-2 Foot Switch


> I had forgot all about it-- my mother and grandmother, both professional
> seamstresses, both had the "knee" switches on their commercial sewing
machines.