[CW] A keyer ruined my wrist...

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

Ron,

One other thing is more common when people go from keyers to bugs.  The
pendulum has to hit the contact post with a but of energy to compress the
dot spring which determines the fatness of the dot, or the dwell.

73

DR

On Aug 11, 2016 9:02 PM, "K3PID" <Ron.K3PID at sbcglobal.net> 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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