[Elecraft] KXPD1 for Non-Iambic users

[Rick Tavan]

I, too, learned to use a keyer with a converted Vibroplex bug simulating 
a single-lever paddle. After a while, though, I acquired a Bencher 
dual-lever paddle and found it pretty easy to use ... but I used it as 
if it were single-lever, only touching one side at a time. This went on 
for years even though I could have been using squeeze (iambic) keying. I 
knew I should be able to send faster if I learned the reduced-motion 
iambic method of keying, so finally I decided that the best way to learn 
it would be one letter at a time. I started with the easiest letters Q 
and Y, learning to leave my fingers on the dah lever while tapping the 
dit lever to insert one dit. K and C weren't much harder and L, period 
and AR were only a little worse. The hardest were R and F and I still 
sometimes inject an extra finger motion on them. The rest of the 
characters are essentially the same in single- and dual-lever sending, 
so I was done. It wasn't so bad after all! Try it.

/Rick N6XI

W0rw at aol.com wrote:

>Yes i have a conversion to straiight bug operation.
>This is the simple conversion of the KX1 iambic paddle (KXPD1) to a single 
>lever paddle.
>