[CW] Bug Sending!

Sat, 20 Sep 2003 14:00:03 -0400

Subject - WAS - A CW Trivia Question - now Bug Sending!!!

Tim,

One very valuable thing I learned from experience is to position your hand
differently when sening on a bug.

Position your hand so that the fleshy part of the side of your hand - the
side near the little finger! - lies on the desktop.

Then curl your fingers and thumb together as if you are going to take a
piece of paper in your grasp.

Instead of the "paper", place your bug finger pieces inbetween your fingers
and thumb in this position.

Now adjust the pendulum for good dots.  If you have an old analog SWR meter,
you can set it to full scale forward power with the transmitter going key
down - use the dash lever for this purpose.

Now leaving the SWR meter in Forward power, adjust the dot contact screw for
50% reading for at least 10 dots  - you will never need more than 8 (for
error sign) but do about 10 dots minimum.

Some adjust the dots for 50% reading and make dots for a minute or so.  But
this might produce too light a dot for QRN bands like 80 meters.

Keep holding the dot lever, the dots should eventually stop, and "hopefully"
will make a "key down" contact.

If it doesn't, adjust the dot contact screw so that it is a "wee bit"
closer, then check to see if it is about 50% on the meter.  Try the 10 dot
test - and then hold the dot lever until the end - see if it closes the
circuit.

If it does, you're finished.

If you don't like the distance of the lever travel - sometimes you have to
make the swing wider to get up enough oscillatons - or oscillations that are
strong enough - readjust the dot lever limit screw to set the swing of the
dot lever wider.

Right now QSL net is down, but I have a recording of my fist sending to an
old timer - I was sending at exagerated spacing (faster letters) to spoon
feed him my code.

ftp://ftp.qsl.net/pub/n1ea/pub

Look down the list of files and find something that looks like N1EA sending
on Vibroplex - it will have some strange %20 characters in it, but just
click on it, and save the file then play it.  It is a mp3 file.

73

DR
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Jones" <[email protected]>
To: "cw" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2003 9:00 AM
Subject: RE: [CW] A CW Trivia Question

> Great post Ken I had to stop and think and I still got it wrong!!!!
> Here is a question I hope someone can help me with, after having
> My ticket for a long time(if you have to know 29yrs) I am getting
> Curious about trying a Vibroplex Bug. Those keys look
> Amazing any hints for a new Bug user?
>
> Jonesy
> K9NX
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf
Of
> Ken Brown
> Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 8:29 PM
> To: cw
> Subject: [CW] A CW Trivia Question
>
> Hi All,
>
> Here is a trivia question about CW on the Amateur bands, which may not
> be so trivial in the future, at least to CW enthusiasts.
>
>
> Question:  What are the frequency limits of the CW ONLY HF Sub-bands in
> the USA?
>
>
> If you do not know the answer, you can find it on the ARRL web site at
> this url:
>
>  http://www.arrl.org/FandES/field/regulations/Hambands_color.pdf
>
> Thanks, and have a nice day,
>
> 73 DE N6KB
>
>
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