[Elecraft] K3 bug mode there (sort of)?

[Ron D'Eau Claire]

I don't know about others, but I find a bug a bit heavy and clumsy to carry
around hiking on a mountain trail, not to mention the danger of damaging it.
Even my "smallish" E.F. Johnson version of the Speed-X is bigger than my
KX1. 

I prefer to carry my bugs in proper boxes and use them on a table top. 

Ron AC7AC


-----Original Message-----

Maybe I'm missing something here, but this all kinda reminds of that old saw
about a duck... You know, "If it walks like a duck and quacks like a
duck..."

If you want a key that works like a bug, feels like a bug, and sounds like a
bug... Why not just get a bug? There are lots of them out there, both
antique and brand-spankin' new, like the Vibroplex line still in production
today after more than a century (http://vibroplex.com/original_bug.html).

I used a Vibroplex standard model bug from the time I was 13 years old and
passed my Extra-class 20 WPM sending test at the FCC in 1977 using one, but
today I really like my Kent paddle and Elecraft B-mode iambic keyer. One of
the coolest things about my old bug was just the way it looked, so if I ever
wanted to go back to a bug... I'd just go back to a bug. :-)

Bill W5WVO