[CW] High Speed Chinese Morse

[David J. Ring, Jr.]

Joe, 

I'm sure you mean "that's not much weight."  That's the point, and it's not about the weight of the paper, 
it's about the smallest weight possible activating the key.

The Chinese have this K4 key and I never understood how what I assumed was a "manufacturing defect" of this
tension spring putting out so much tension.  Then I figured out that it was designed to put out a huge amount
of spring tension.  In fact when I adjusted my key for the "weight of an angel" on the knob, I actually had to 
add MORE tension!

Don't get lost on this, Chinese use of hand keys is unlike anything else, they use a USA bent lever, but
they send with the arm off the desktop.

They spend with enormous tension on the lever and micro spacing of the contact so that the tinyest weight 
closes the key.

I hope that simplifies my description of something virtually unknown in the Western World!

73
DR
N1EA


On 20/08/18 08:46AM, Richard Knoppow wrote:
>    I calculate about half this. Paper weight is for a ream of folio size
> sheets, nominally 17x22 inches. That's four 8.5x11 sheets per folio sheet.
>    The sheets must have been folded to keep them from going over the edge of
> the knob.
> 
> On 8/18/2020 5:52 AM, Joe Pontek Sr wrote:
> > 
> > Two  8 1/2" X 11" sheets of 20# paper weighs approximately
> > 0.320 Oz.  That is not much tension.
> > 
> > On 8/18/2020 5:17 AM, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote:
> > > Yes, very little weight, extremely small spacing, huge spring
> > > tension.
> > > 
> > > 73
> > > 
> > > DR
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