[CW] mode a, mode b, iambic etc..

Mon, 20 Jan 2003 12:47:04 -0500

Excellent Pedro!

I love the way you cut to the core.

Let me try also:

I agree with Pedro 100% but I have a warning:  Many people get frustrated
with Mode B because it inserts dots without being forced.  In other words,
if your fingers aren't timed perfectly, you often end up with a dot at the
end.

Mode A dosn't do this.  Avoid frustration - learn Mode A.

Viva Mode A.  Keyer of the Pros.

73

DR
David J. Ring, Jr., N1EA

----- Original Message -----
From: "Pedro J. Santa" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 11:14 AM
Subject: Re: [CW] mode a, mode b, iambic etc..

> As soon as you know that the best way to operate a iambic paddle is by
using
> the least strokes possible and that most letters can be attained with just
a
> simple squeeze--the secret being the timing of the closing squeeze and/or
> the release--then you
> just apply that principle and effortless operation, with a steady hand and
> imperceptible motions, will eventually become second nature--without
> having to even touch these conceptual and useless distinctions between
"Mode
> A"  and  "Mode B".
> That was, and remains, my point...
>
> 73 Pedro KP3X..
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 11:28 AM
> Subject: [CW] mode a, mode b, iambic etc..
>
>
> > I hve been following this discussion, some good points on both
> > ends of it.  I liked Pedro's reaction, "Just do it!"
> >   I have a viking dual lever paddle.  I was originally
> > a straight key person for many years.   The paddle was
> > given to me by a friend.  After examining how I actually
> > use the viking, I find it is a rocking motion from side to
> > side, not a squeezing motion.  My wrist seems to do the moving
> > and the thumb and finger stay in one position.  Which mode is this??
> >   I have to say that if I had read all of this thread when I was first
> > starting out to learn how to send... I would be very confused!
> >   73  Andrew Bowlby  VE1EX
> >   CW FOREVER!
> >
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