[CW] Secrets of Easy Morse Code Sending

pa0wv pa0wv at amsat.org
Sat Mar 16 10:16:34 EDT 2019


SLAP(ping)  for mechanical bug users, is one meaning of SLAP, just 
requiring a heavy bug base in order to prevent the bug from beiing 
lounched by the operator. Another one introduced here of SLAP is Single 
Lever Action Paddle.

Confusing, isn't it ?

Which paddle should I use, Single or Dual Lever Action?

He wrote : "However, if you are new to sending Morse code, I recommend a 
Dual Lever Action Paddle for the following reasons."

Of course you can use a dual paddle in a single paddle way, however one 
of the reasons these days using Morse code is not anymore that it is  
the best way to transport your msg, that must be so un-important that 
even the public telephone and telegraph should not be used for it, in a 
man made noisy, and  QRM and QRN environment.  But to honour and 
remember the untangible cultural heritage of long range communications 
over land and sea as it started to exist.

So starters in Morse code should be encouraged to use a straight key, 
especially to prevent them sending faster than they can copy.

I am missing the cootie, the forerunner of the bug, it is best suited 
for seasoned guys that have seen it all, and just want to keep contact 
with fellows in the overtime of their existance, accompanied with rheuma 
and artritus in their hands and a shivering uncontrolled  reaction time. 
So a real amateur, that is in my definition a person constructing his 
equipment himself, hence being not Japanese box purchasers, it is a key 
that is easily manufactured from some old scrap that is available in 
each household that does not throw away ss garbage everything that is 
defect or weared out, but saves it for future imagination about a second 
life.

73=30


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