[CW] Foot key?

[Ron Youvan]

   TOF means "try other foot."  Allegedly a old time dig at someone with a bad fist.
   (not funny when the other operator has no hands or arms)
   In every picture I have ever seen of "toe keying" the "great toe" was used with a
normal (ordinary) straight key.  They hold "foot keying" contests at clubs or elsewhere
in some other countries.

> 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?
-- 
    Ron  KA4INM - around here the government employees have become quite skilled at taking
                  every opportunity to TAX and it shows.  (while giving very poor service)