[Elecraft] start with straight key or paddles?

[Ron D'Eau Claire]

Hisashi Fujinaka wrote:

Not quite an answer but the ARRL article on John Curtis said, "(according to
John, Mode B was actually a design error by an unnamed company)."

http://www.arrl.org/news/features/2002/02/04/2/?nc=1

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Thank you Fujinaka-san! 

I enjoyed reading the article. I noticed one error for those tracking the
famous (or infamous) mode B. The article said, "In 1981 Curtis found that
many people liked the mode B keying characteristics of Ten-Tec, Heath, Nye,
and Accu-keyers."

I don't know about the others, but the Accu-Keyer was a mode "A" keyer, not
a mode "B". I used a homebrew Accu-Keyer built straight from the QST article
for 20 years. Since I reverted to a bug it's now sitting on the shelf, but
still works as well as the day it built in the mid-1970's. 

Ron AC7AC