[Elecraft] kx1 and single-lever paddles?

[EricJ]

 The KX1 would never know that you connected a single-lever paddle vs. a
dual-lever paddle. Dual-lever paddles are not necessarily "normal". They are
just more common.

BTW, you suggested you were having a little trouble with iambic keying.
Don't feel bad. I did a little informal survey at the last club meeting
among the known cw ops there. Out of an even dozen of us, all used a
dual-paddle paddle. Only two used either iambic mode. One of those using
iambic was relatively new to ham radio, the other had been a cw op for 30
years. The rest of us had been cw ops for 20-48 (me) years. Frankly, iambic
keying seems to take an awful lot of effort to learn just to send 4 letters
with less energy.

If you're having problems with it, don't worry about it. Concentrate on
well-formed Morse with whatever you are comfortable with. The important
thing is to get on the air and built experience.

Eric
KE6US

-----Original Message-----
From: elecraft-bounces+eric_csuf=hotmail.com at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:elecraft-bounces+eric_csuf=hotmail.com at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of
Andrea Borgia
Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2005 2:00 PM
To: Elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [Elecraft] kx1 and single-lever paddles?


Question is, does the KX1 internal keyer really care about the paddle being
a normal dual-lever model or a single non-iambic one?
(backup question: was the question above really dumb? ;-)

TIA,
Andrea.

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Homepage: http://andrea.borgia.bo.it     /    Amateur radio: IZ4FHT
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