[CW] Straight Key Night tonight

[D.J.J. Ring, Jr.]

Hello Kate and fellow devotees of Morse keys,

A "Vertical Key" is what many Europeans call a "Straight key" because the
motion is vertical, that is up and down.  Many Europeans especially in
Eastern Europe call "paddles" by the name of manipulator or "manip".

The cootie key is more often known as a side swiper, or a maniflex
especially in France where DYNA manufactured side swipers.

Here is a very beautiful web site with lots of information on DYNA's many
types of keys:  http://3a2lf.blogspot.com/2010/04/dyna-chabot.html

Use the mouse scroll button to go from one picture to the next one, or if
you have no scroll wheel, just click on the icons at the bottom.

Neal K5RW has nicely saved the instructions and translated them for us:

http://telegraph-office.com/pages/Maniflex_instructions.html

More instructions in words, a recording and even a video of sideswiper
sending here by your "no reason to be humble if I send as poorly as this"
Conductor of the CW email list.   Rotten tomatoes and hissing sounds please
only by carrier pigeon.

http://sideswipernet.org/articles/n1ea-sending.php



73

DR

 On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 12:55 AM, FM <rub <ruben.bestard at infomed.sld.cu>
en.bestard at infomed.sld.cu <ruben.bestard at infomed.sld.cu>> wrote:

> Hello Kate! Thanks for notice. Its really funny hear the dit dit from a
vertical key. That's remember me my first steps as a kid with ham license.
HI
>
>
> 73 Frank CO2IR
>
> PS: Thanks for stay in radio. Always its gratifying copy a YL.
>
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