[CQ-Contest] Single versus Dual Lever Paddles

[Zack Widup]

You know, it's a funny thing.  I just noticed last weekend that I use an 
iambic keyer but half the time I press the paddles separately and half the 
time I squeeze both when needing iambic functions.  I once used a bug back 
in the days when keyers were not yet really common.

Anyway, my own sending habits struck me as a bit odd when I realized what 
I did and I wondered why I do it that way.

73, Zack W9SZ

 
On Tue, 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