[Boatanchors] tube CW iambic keyer?

[eugene at hertzmail.com]

Very interesting you mentioned single lever. So would the HA-1 be well
suited for a single lever key like the begali simplex mono?

http://www.i2rtf.com/html/simplex.html

or the kent sp-1?

Thanks

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w8au at sssnet.com
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 7:07 PM
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Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] tube CW iambic keyer?

At 05:05 PM 2/17/2009, Garey Barrell wrote:
>The TO is probably the best tube based keyer that is still readily
>available.  I used one for years, and still have a couple that I use 
>occasionally.
>One caveat.... They are _NOT_ "IAMBIC" by today's definition.

As Jim Ricks, W9TO (the inventor of it) said of the "single lever"
operation,
"it has built-in logic... you have one side (dahs) or the other 
(dits) but never
both at the same time."  To one who learned this type back in the early
60s
the Iambic is a series of mistakes waiting to happen. :-)

YMMV,
Perry  w8au



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