[CW] High Speed Chinese Morse

Tue Aug 18 02:20:54 EDT 2020

    I sort of follow this but two pieces of paper for _weight_? 
hardly any, maybe they should use angels dancing on the knob. I 
have seen a fellow who sent this way, key barely opened, don't 
remember how much tension. Well, I have a key on a code practice 
oscillator right here and tried it. Couldn't get much control and 
can't send any faster than my usual set up but played with the 
spacing and tension a little. FWIW, this is a Western Electric 
key and Bud oscillator. Keep it next to the computer to practice on.
    I normally set the tension so that it just lifts a size D 
battery off the contact. Spacing around the thickness of the edge 
of a dime. I have no idea what my speed is now but I once was 
comfortable at around 20WPM.

On 8/17/2020 10:25 PM, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote:
> Yes, it's vibrating.
>
> The key is adjusted so it just touches with spring tension, two 
> pieces of paper are placed on the knob. Spring tension is 
> INCREASED into the key no longer is a closed circuit. If 
> needed, the spacing of the key is DECREASED, increasing spring 
> tension if needed.
>    I read the maximum speed record as being 35WPM FASTER than 
> the guys in the video were going, that didn't make any sense to 
> me. 35WPM maximum sounds quite possible (not by me). I always 
> had a good fist. I need to practice more to get my speed up now 
> but make sure the timing is good. I use a hand exerciser, one 
> of those squeeze things, to keep the strength up. Helps with 
> code and with typing.
> Sorry about explaining it poorly, the setup is very unintuitive 
> to me.
>
> They adjust the key for maximum tension and micro spacing.
>
> Anyone who can say this clearer please do.
>
> NW6V said on the SKCC mail list that the current hand key 
> sending record is 35 WPM, which he says is faster than these 
> examples.
>
> I'm just in awe of them, I remember when I took my first 
> radiotelegraph FCC test, I tested every ball point on the 
> market for speed. The fastest in 1979 was PaperMate Write Bros 
> ballpoint. These days it probably would be the Zebra ballpoint.
>
> I copied Chatham Radio's 0300Z Associated Press broadcast which 
> lasted about two hours. It went out at 25 WPM. One night I 
> copied by "stick" the next night by MILL. Then I'd take the 
> copy and send it with my hand key. Even though I practiced for 
> two years, I never managed to get above 23 WPM. I have a 
> neurobiological congenital disability due to my being born 
> three months premature at 3 lbs. 2 oz. But I concentrate on 
> what I can overcome, not what makes it difficult.
>
> I finally resigned to use my MILL and Vibroplex. I always had 
> an excellent fist with a hand key, one old Swede used to say 
> "it sounds like a tape." Eddie Myerbeck, W1SM (ex W1AKY.) who 
> passed around 1996.
>
> 73
>
> David N1EA
>
> On Sun, Aug 16, 2020, 17:29 Richard Knoppow 
> <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com <mailto:1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com>> wrote:
>
>         BTW, I learned this technique from a YL I knew at the time
>     who did Swedish massage. That is a technique where you vibrate
>     you hands much like an electric vibrator. I could do it for a
>     very short time and tried the same thing for sending. Maybe
>     not
>     what you are describing.
>
>     On 8/16/2020 2:26 PM, Richard Knoppow wrote:
>     >    I think this is what I meant when I said I could
>     vibrate my
>     > arm. I don't think I could do it now. It was very
>     fatiguing and
>     > I never tried it on the air, only practicing. I was
>     supposed to
>     > have a very good fist back then.
>     >
>
>     -- 
>     Richard Knoppow
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