[CW] A keyer ruined my wrist...

[stan levandowski]

Check out this kit debouncer at:  http://wb9kzy.com/bugde.htm


If you want to homebrew one yourself, then see: 
 http://www.kn5l.net/debounce555/


If you prefer a mechanical solution, then see this dot stabilizer 
at: https://www.qrz.com/db/W0EB


Or, you could just clean the contacts and properly adjust the bug.  If 
it's a NEW bug, it could still be maladjusted and/or have some film on 
the contacts.


I've used electronic debouncers as well as the dot stabilizer and they 
work just fine.  I've also spent time carefully cleaning my bugs and 
adjusting them very carefully and that worked fine too but the problem 
often returned after some period of time.


My preference is for Jim W0EB's mechanical dot stabilizer.  This concept 
has been around since the 1930s (I think McElroy...).


I've also just stuffed a small piece of foam inside the spring and that 
worked too.


FWIW.......


73, Stan WB2LQF



On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 09:01 PM, K3PID wrote:






Boy who knew that a few years of using a paddle and a keyer would ruin a
guys wrist? My hand just doesn’t want to make multiple DAHs ( cause the 
stupid
keyer does it all by itself...) I’ve been practicing off-air and it’s 
coming
back but what a struggle!


 


ALSO!!  Why are the DITs from my new bug scratchy? Right count, right
length, just not clean! Is this a possible spring tension thing? or am I 
just
having to relearn it all? Is there a contact wetting required? I don’t 
recall
having the issue in the past...


 


73 ES AS while I work it out...


 


Ron K3PID


 


 

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