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

[kburrows]

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From: "kburrows" <kburrows@lvp.eastlink.ca>
To: <ve1ex@ve3kyz.ampr.org>
Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 7:40 PM
Subject: Re: [CW] mode a, mode b, iambic etc..


> Hi Andrew,
>
> Well it sounds like you hve a paddle that cud send Iambic..but you are
using
> it like a single lever paddle..
> Heres my tale of woe with keyers...
> I bought a dual lever Vibroplex (which I still am using)
> paddle. Then I bought a MFJ keyer, it had an A and B
> switch on the back...
>
> At the time I didnt know what the switch was for,
> it was already set on A so I left it there.....
> I banged away for quite a while and finally thought I was
> doing very well on it, just moving my wrist like a bug...
>
> One night I was working VE1RGB and he asked be if
> I was squeezing the paddle, of course I didnt know what he was talking
about
> , he said I wasnt using it properly,
> I didnt know what he was talking about and thought he was crazy...
> After the qso I tried to squeeze the paddle and like magic
> a "C" came out all with one squeeze, gee what fun...so I
> messed around and after many months finally could squeeze the thing quite
> well....this was with an old Johnson Viking Tx and RX combo stn...
>
> I then bought a TS570D,  was I happy it had a built in
> keyer so I threw the old MFJ in a box, stuck the paddles
> jack in the 570 and tried to send CW... well ... what a mess... so this
went
> on for months, finally I could send
> so so with it, I was on 40 meters one day working a VE2,
> he had a Kenwood 570 just like mine,  I asked him if he
> had a hard time sending with the built in keyer, he said he
> had no problem becuz it was an Iambic B keyer in the rig..
>
> More confusion, after this qso I decided to look up Iambic A and B in the
> Handbook, and after about 12 months of complete frustration  I saw that I
> had at first
> learned Iambic A on the MFJ keyer and then was forced,
> (without even knowing it to learn Iambic B) on the
> new Kenwood...
>
> So thats the tragic tale of my keying exploits A and B.. Hi..
>
> Before the above exploits I had used a single lever keyer on an old RCA
> Marine Txtr so that probably added to
> my confusion....
>
> Anyway Im still trying and am not even close to perfection
> yet....
>
> Ken
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <ve1ex@ve3kyz.ampr.org>
> To: <cw@mailman.qth.net>
> 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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