[ADXA] Hard call sign in Morse

[Dennis Schaefer]

I built an HD-10 keyer in the dorm at college.  I had a soldering iron but had to use a pair of nail clippers to cut off the wires that stuck out of the circuit board.  I used the built-in micro switch paddles a little bit but hooked up my “back-to-back Speed-X” paddles as soon as possible.  That was actually a pretty good iambic paddle at the time.  I made some little brackets and attached the straight keys to an old Vibroplex heavy base.  I cut the finger pieces out of plexiglass.  Before the HD-10, I used it with a vacuum tube electronic keyer.  Now, I have a Schurr Profi 3, an N3ZN, and a Begali on the desk but probably had more fun back in the old days.  (yes, it really is a Profi 3).  

My call was WN5IIS and then WA5IIS.  I got a lot of II?    Too many dits.  I mainly picked out RZ because it had a decent rhythm for CW.   I think W5RF was not available or I would have gotten it.  

73,
Dennis

> On Jul 21, 2021, at 2:44 PM, Nick Kennedy <kennnick at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hey Jay, 
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> Your link caused my browser to shut down. Twice.
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> OK - not your fault - I tried opening YouTube without the link and it happened again.
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> But I really wanted to comment on the HD-10 keyer. Whoa, terrible keyer. Those microswitches would cause misfires and I don't need any help making errors. Did a nice job of matching my HW-101 though.  I finally bought a Brown Brothers paddle and built an Accu-Keyer from the '76 Handbook.
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> As far as calls that are hard to copy - I dunno. Used to hear that too many dits was bad because they'd get lost in QRN.  But in recent years I've heard a number of folks opt for the 'ESE' shave and a haircut suffix.
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> Playing with RUFZ, it's generally the prefixes that get me. I don't have them hard wired into my memory like a real DXer should.  Was that a 5 or an H?
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> 73
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> Nick, WA5BDU
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>> On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 1:54 PM Jay Bromley <jayw5jay at cox.net> wrote:
>> Sure try my old novice call WN5JZX.  I built a Heathkit HD-10 paddle keyer and never could send that call with it, hi hi.  That was one of the most horrible Keying devices!  See it here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBINAkfoH9A  it had a micro switch on each side that could be adjusted.  Again horrible compared to the worse keyers/paddles that we have today, hi. 
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>> 73 de jay..
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>> From: adxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net <adxa-bounces at mailman.qth.net> On Behalf Of sbranyan at cox.net
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 2021 8:21 PM
>> To: ADXA <adxa at mailman.qth.net>
>> Subject: [ADXA] Hard call sign in Morse
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>> Been practicing listening to callsigns. This one was particularly hard for me this evening to try to send. WN6EIF It's like a tongue twister when I try to say it at 15 WPM.
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>> Not that I am a gluten for punishment, but anybody else have any others, hihi
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>> 73,
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>> Scott/W5AAJ
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