[CW] Foot key?

[Dick Bentley]

I won a morse code sending test a few years ago at an Atlanta area hamfest.  The inappropriate prize was an MFJ 2m/440 mag mount antenna.  The key was hand made by Lou, W4LHH, not sure who might have possession of it at the moment, last time I saw it was in the hands of W4QO.
 
73
 
Dick  K2UFT
--- On Wed, 3/4/09, Jeffrey Herman <jeffreyh at hawaii.edu> wrote:

From: Jeffrey Herman <jeffreyh at hawaii.edu>
Subject: [CW] Foot key?
To: "CW Reflector" <cw at mailman.qth.net>, "Ham Radio History E-list" <ham-radio-history at yahoogroups.com>
Date: Wednesday, March 4, 2009, 2:49 PM

I was browsing through my 1965 edition of Hints and Kinks (cover price:
$1.00). On page 6 appears the usual SCHEMATIC SYMBOLS USED IN CIRCUIT
DIAGRAMS but what caught my eye were the symbols under the KEYS heading:
Both a hand key and a foot key appear; right away I thought QLF but
then realized that the ARRL probably didn't have that kind of sense of
humor. Then I thought they meant "foot pedal" -- we use those as a
PTT
at all our USCG stations so the op can keep his/her hand free during
xmit. But really, a foot pedal is a PTT switch, not a key in the Morse
sense. So I must ask, were/are there Morse foot keys? Has anyone
ever sent Morse using one? Seems kind of awkward. Can you imagine
suffering from a glass ankle?

73,
Jeff KH6O
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