[CW] New touch keyer

[David J. Ring, Jr.]

The Waters Codax keyer had microswitches, this keyer has NO switches, no
mechanical movement.

Simply amazing thing!

I do wish they'd construct it like the Waters keyer though - with some sort
of plastic in between the gold plated fingerpieces and inlay the
fingerpieces.

That would look beautiful.

73

David N1EA

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jerry W. O'Dell" <jwodell at provide.net>
To: "David J. Ring, Jr." <n1ea at arrl.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 6:52 AM
Subject: Re: [CW] New touch keyer


At 10:54 PM 6/22/2004, you wrote:
>The one is QST operates on a different principle.
>
>With the one in QST, you have a serpentine cutout.
>
>With the CW Touch Keyer, you don't have to do this - the keys are solid.
>You cannot false this keyer.  It ALWAYS activates when it is supposed to,
>and doesn't activate when it isn't supposed to.
>
>You won't find that with a serpentine type of touch paddle.
>
>The fellow that designed this CW Touch Keyer designed it to overcome the
>deficiences in the serpentine design.
>
>Why not try this one, avoid the problems, and the cost of building a
>disappointing keyer?
>
>73

Hey, David, remember the Waters keyer of the 60's? Pretty much the same
idea, but nicely made. I got one for $2 at the local emporium, but some
idiot had left the batteries in it, and it was ruined. I suspect that they
used oscillators and suchlike.

Didn't know that was you, frankly. Kind of given up on cw for the summer.
Just no one to talk to, but plenty on psk31.

73 jerry w8gnd