[Boatanchors] Fw: Re: tube CW iambic keyer?

[Kees & Sandy]

Of course, that's right, the TO keyer was not iambic. I've always had trouble with iambic paddles and don't use them that way, just fired up my homebrew TO keyer to confirm. Sure is fun to watch those 2 regulator tubes blink and the NE-2 running. 
The single armature key I picked up from Vibroplex works great (but I'm still going to build my own on an Altoids tin). Wasn't that type of key called a "Cootie Key" ?
73 Kees K5BCQ

-- "Al Parker" <anchor at ec.rr.com> wrote:
From: <w8au at sssnet.com>
> As Jim Ricks, W9TO (the inventor of it) said
> "it has built-in logic... you have one side (dahs) or the other (dits) but 
> never
> both at the same time."

Ain't that the truth.  I never have been able to do iambic, tho' really 
haven't tried a lot. (Vibroplex works fine for me, tho' I have built & used 
keyers)
73,
Al, W8UT
New Bern, NC
www.boatanchors.org
www.hammarlund.info

"there is nothing -absolutely nothing- half as much worth doing as simply 
messing about in boats."
  Ratty, to Mole




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