[Elecraft] WTB - Kent single lever paddle

[Darwin, Keith]

A lot of people talk about how difficult squeeze keying is to learn.  I
sure don't want to lessen their position, but I confess I find it
baffling.  To me squeeze keying is very natural and intuitive.  I went
from a straight key to a keyer years ago without learning a bug or
cootie key.  Maybe that had something to do with it.  I learned iambic
squeeze keying when I was doing CW at 8 wpm.  Maybe that had something
to do with it.

Many years later I learned to use a bug (lot's of fun BTW).  It did take
me a while, but that had more to do with learning to form dashes
manually.  Learning to not squeeze was the easy part.  I guess after
years (decades) of buggin', many ops find it hard to retrain the muscles
and brain to send CW with a slightly different pattern.

I'm interested in a single lever paddle so I can use it as a cootie (my
next mountain to conquer).

73!

- Keith N1AS -
- K3 711 -

-----Original Message-----
From:  David Ferrington, M0XDF

I think I'd like to see Ultimatic mode too, I'm thinking I'll have to
learn Iambic though, because most rigs don't support Ultimatic.
But Ultimatic does sound like the easier and frankly, more logical mode.

Maybe I'll have to borrow a friends keyer to give it a try.
73 de M0XDF, K3 #174