Fw: [Elecraft] simple iambic paddle

[VE3GAM Allen McRorie]

one link you can check out: http://www.geocities.com/n2uhc/paddles.html

al ve3gam

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ian Stirling" <g4icv at arrl.net>
To: <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 1:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] simple iambic paddle


> On Thursday 24 April 2008 12:39:01 pm Brian Lloyd wrote:
> 
>> Does anyone have a design for a very simple iambic key that can be  
>> made with simple materials and hand tools?
> 
>  I made one when I built The Ultimate Keyer Mk2 by G3RVM
> in the February 1980 issue of Radio Communication.
> I used two thin strips of copper clad board. Mine was
> double sided but singe sided is all that's needed.
> I sawed a small diecast box to get two nice right angle
> brackets and screwed them on the base of the main diecast
> box where I had the electronics. The PCB strips came out
> the front of the box separated about half an inch.
> I used stick-on rubber feet as the thumb abd finger contacts.
>  For the switch contacts, I drilled quarter inch staggered
> holes in the PCBs and using the other two corners of the
> cut box, mounted them outside the PCBs with a long screw
> going through each PCB hole.  So the mounts for the
> screws are both outside the strips.  The PCB strips were
> nicely springy and I adjusted the screws to a very fine
> touch.
>  I bought a Bencher paddle soon afterwards.
> I have no idea why I dismantled my own paddles; I remember
> their being just as good as the Bencher.
> 
> Ian, G4ICV, AB2GR, K2 #4962
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