[Elecraft] Fastest: Paddle or Bug (OT)

[Sverre Holm - LA3ZA]

It has been fascinating for me to hear the stories of Morse from past
usage. My inspiration for becoming a ham was my father who was a radio
man on a Norwegian merchant ship in the late forties, and I remember him
head copying what was to me quite a mysterious language from the old
Hallicrafters S40A that he had brought with him home from a trip.

I couldn't resist thinking about the original title of this thread, and
here are some figures from http://www.morsecode.dutch.nl/iambic.PDF
which at the end contains the number of strokes per character for
different methods. Examples: 

G = 3 strokes with straight key, 3 strokes with a bug and 2 strokes with
an iambic paddle. 

The whole alphabet + numbers: 132, 87, 69 strokes respectively.

So this should indicate that here is some saving for the paddle after
all.


Sverre LA3ZA
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