[CW] Bug Sending Flourishing Fingers or Rolling Forearm?

Wed Mar 25 18:54:53 EDT 2015

Here is one non-destructive solution, not necessarily the *only* one:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oZv9mVhBG4

73, Stan WB2LQF

On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 06:31 PM, Danny Douglas via CW wrote:
Only way to send.  HI.   
No, to slow it down, by putting more weights doesnt work.  You are
right, in that extending the length of the pendulum appears the way to
go, but, I recently saw where guys were building up the weight
vertically versus horizontally, and it worked.  Take a look around and
search "slowing vibroplex speed" and probably find a good dozen
different pictures, etc.  Mine is the one I used on Diplomatic
Telecommunications Service nets.  Old, Black surface, and has sent a
million messages.

    	Mike A via CW <mailto:cw at mailman.qth.net>

   Wednesday, March
25, 2015 6:23 PM

Me, too. My
uncle Stu gave me the bug he used as radio operator on a bomber
over
Europe. It's a Vibroplex (not Lionel or another maker, but the Real
Thing)
  Lightning bug with a 1941 manufacture date on the nomenclature plate.
It
  sends faster than I can receive, even with the weight all the way out. 
I
suppose
  I need to lengthen the pendulum with an extension bar.
Stu's SK
now, but the bug still works fine. When he gave it to me, it was set
up
  for REALLY BIG MOVEMENTS of hand/fingers/wrist/arm/left_foot: the bar
looked
  like a grain flail at work, and the bug sounded like one, too.

    	Danny Douglas <mailto:n7dc at comcast.net>

   Wednesday, March
25, 2015 4:13 PM

I do.  Brain cramp.  I
send faster than I think, these days.

    	Roadrunner via CW <mailto:cw at mailman.qth.net>

   Wednesday, March
25, 2015 2:41 PM

Great articles. Thank
  you!

I never get any cramping while sending
with a bug.
Best regards - Brian Carling
AF4K Crystals Co.
117
  Sterling Pine St.
Sanford, FL 32773

Tel:
  +USA 321-262-5471

On
  Mar 25, 2015, at 2:32 PM, Richard Knoppow via CW <cw at mailman.qth.net 
<mailto:cw at mailman.qth.net> >
  wrote:

      An amazing performance and the quality of the fist is very
     good.   I've seen a video of DA sending with a hand key and her
     fingers fly there too.  

          BTW, does anyone know how she is doing?  

On 3/24/2015 3:49 PM, D.J.J. Ring, Jr.
       via CW wrote:

Bug sending.  Fingers or Rolling Forearm?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYhrSEERvbI 
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYhrSEERvbI>

DA sending closing message on Night of
                 Nights 11 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYhrSEERvbI>

DA sends with her flying fingers! I
               learned to send by rolling my forearm.

RCA
                 KPH operator Denice Stoops (DA) uses a wonderful
                 fingerwork flourish but it isn't the way I was taught 
to
                 avoid cramping and other bug-a-boos of bug sending.

Here

                 is a video of myself at a Speed-X semi-automatic key - 
I
                 discuss sending and set up of bug:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NjjviNVaW8 
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NjjviNVaW8>

Here

                 is a closeup of bug setup looking at the damper
                 adjustment - "just so it touches the wheel on the 
damper
                 - and the damper wheel is unrestrained so that it
                 moves!".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpAuWL7vnMI 
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpAuWL7vnMI>

I
                 always asked the best operators I ever heard for advice
                 and I was told I could send faster, longer, and clearer
                 by rotating the forearm to send.  I have found this to
                 be true. 

More on
                   KPH including a half hour video and more DA sending!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mXrpkU7CCI 
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mXrpkU7CCI>

Even though I recommend my method of bug sending, I
                   could watch DA sending forever!  I'm boring next to
                   her!

73

David
                     N1EA

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    	Richard Knoppow via CW <mailto:cw at mailman.qth.net>

   Wednesday, March
25, 2015 2:32 PM

      An amazing performance and the quality of the fist is very
     good.   I've seen a video of DA sending with a hand key and her
     fingers fly there too.  

          BTW, does anyone know how she is doing?  

On 3/24/2015 3:49 PM, D.J.J. Ring, Jr.
       via CW wrote:

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