[CW] W6BNB Bob Shrader's method of using a straight key.

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

Other people are telling me the picture is coming through.

Here it is again.   I inserted the picture as well as attached it.
[image: catlin grip.jpg]
73
DR


On Sat, Jan 20, 2024 at 11:34 PM Richard Knoppow <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com>
wrote:

>     David, no picture. I think perhaps the CW list does not accept
> attachments.
>     I can understand holding the knob like a pen. I think I actually do
> this. The movement of the wrist is still what I would call vertical but
> the wrist is rotated slightly inboard (i.e. the right hand rotated a bit
> toward the left) so there is some relief from the tension of a fully
> "flat" position. Is this about what you mean?
>     With regards to a bug, I send with a sort of rolling motion of my
> hand, not a lot of force used. My forearm moves a little, not sure what
> muscles are used. I get carpal tunnel pain when typing but not when
> sending code on either type of key.
>
> On 1/20/2024 6:06 PM, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote:
> > Early texts describe "The Catlin Grip" as "like holding a pen" and
> > illustrate the hand in - ta-da - the position of function. See the
> > photo attached. But sometime in the beginning of the 20th century, the
> > pictures were redrawn, showing the wrist flat. And that became the
> > defacto default. The picture shows the Catlin Grip which is what was
> > used by Chris NW6V to win 1st place in straight key sending contests.
> >
> > Many radiotelegraphers - myself included - send with a straight key
> > and never get glass arm because I evolved away from a flat wrist
> > posture.  I never use my wrist to send with.  I use my arm my wrist is
> > totally limp.  Instructors in Morse when I learned would come around
> > to see if your wrist was tense, if it was your posture was incorrect
> > as you were using your wrist, and not your arm which is the correct
> > posture.
> > With sending with both a semiautomatic key (bug) and a sideswiper, I
> > use the lower arm, NOT the wrist to send. The wrist is totally limp.
> > 73
> > DR
> > N1EA
>
> --
> Richard Knoppow
> Los Angeles
> WB6KBL
> SKCC 19998
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