[TenTec] Mobile CW Paddle

[Larry Menzel]

Hi, Duane,

As a cw/m guy for 25+ years now, I can tell you that finely crafted paddles
are not the answer.  I tried them, Vibroplex, Schurr-two models, etc., and
have settled for some years now on an old black base Bencher.  You don't
have to worry much about the tension, but even more important is that you
have to open up the spacing on the contacts so that the slightest little
road irregularity doesn't throw you off stride.

I used to drive an 18 wheeler and send cw, and believe me, I learned early
how to keep from screwing up my cw.  Now I send from my nice cushy car, but
I drive 30K miles a year on my job so I get to work a lot of cw/m.

So, try a regular old Bencher paddle, open the spacing up a bit...you don't
have to send at 35 wpm from the car, and those open spacing settings are
good for 28 wpm no sweat.

Good Luck, and I'll look for you on the air from the car.

Larry, N0XB/m (lots of the time)
Northfield, mN




-----Original Message-----
From: tentec-bounces at contesting.com [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com]
On Behalf Of Duane A Calvin
Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 8:28 PM
To: tentec at contesting.com
Subject: [TenTec] Mobile CW Paddle

For those of you who work mobile CW, I'm curious what you use for a
paddle?  I have the Begali Traveller Lite, and find that while the
magnetic tensioning is great for fixed position operating, it has too
little tension for mobile work.  At least, that's my  conjecture.  What I
find is that riding on a bumpy road (that's any road in my truck), it's
far to easy to screw up the sending with extraneous dit's and dah's.  I
have the tension set on the highest setting, which is still light
compared to most paddles, and have not tried opening the spacing yet. 
That may help.  I'm curious what others of you find works well for mobile
CW.

        73,  Duan
(perhaps this goes with the current Scout topic, to tie it to TT!)

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Duane Calvin, AC5AA
Austin, Texas

http://home.austin.rr.com/ac5aa
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