[CW] Iambics vs. others

[Pedro J. Santa]

I just can't believe some of the bizarre comments I see here.I can't believe
comments to the effect that iambic paddles and a keyer are not suitable for
CW at speeds of 30 plus. There was a fellow here who even enunciated that
iambics were not suitable for those speeds.

Well, fast and comfortable CW at 30-50 WPM is not unusual with my Mercury,
and I still don't know why anybody can say that speeds over 30 WPM require
"single levers"; that Iambics are not up to the job in those speeds, nor
that type of sheer nonsense. I've even read some fellows here who are now
counting strokes for regular letters and signs and comparing them
numerically with strokes and touches used with other keys--iambic paddles
with keyers included. How nonsensical all that is!  Sometimes I wonder if
some of the guys here get on the air at all using Morse Code as I know it,
with the tools that are presently available, or if they are instead typists
of a sort of  verbosity that relates very little, if at all, with day-to-day
Morse Code operation on the air.

Pedro KP3X..