[Elecraft] kx1 and single-lever paddles?

[Andrea Borgia]

EricJ wrote:


> The KX1 would never know that you connected a single-lever paddle vs. a
> dual-lever paddle.

Ah, good! I was worried about the squeeze being required to form some
characters.


> BTW, you suggested you were having a little trouble with iambic keying.

"trouble" is quite an understatement: every time I try it, I get worked
up in a way I never experienced when learning code with the straight
key. Oh well...


> 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.

I'll try asking a similar question at the next club meeting but I
suspect everybody uses iambic here, new ops included.

By the way, when I met Lazlo HA3NU (a guy who sets the keyer to 60wpm
and calls it "slow" ;-) at a big italian hamfest in Pordenone a few
weeks ago, he said he preferred single lever paddles, especially for
truly extra-high speeds. Your comments and his, taken together, have
convinced me that all is well 8-)


B73,
Andrea.

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