[Elecraft] Iambic Keying (WAS: Straight key first?)

[Buddy Brannan]

Heh. I just copy in my head. Have pretty much since the beginning. The only time I've ever written down anything during cw q's has been 1) traffic handling and 2) logging. When I remember to, lately, yes, I've slipped into lazy habits. With this in mind, I am still baffled when I hear people, especially old school military ops, who say they can't copy code unless they write it down or type on a typewriter. The human brain is a strange beast, and no mistake. 
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Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA
Phone: (814) 860-3194 or 888-75-BUDDY



On Jun 29, 2011, at 10:13 PM, Dale Putnam wrote:

> 
> I learned with a straight key and a stick. It took me about half of one QSO to figure out swapping a pencil back and forth, along with throwing the t-r switch, and the mute switch, adjusting the tx, then keying the key, and reversing all that, pretty near made it necessary to use my off hand for the key... keeping the pencil corralled was a good thing. So when paddles came along, it was pretty near easy to move to a nice paddle, keyer, and still keep the pencil corralled. It wasn't until just a couple years ago that I had the fun of playing with a Halli T-O keyer... and a single lever Vibroplex. Remember when that was THE setup? Well.. I rather had a tussle with it, so am back with the paddles now, with 8 on the desk now. And one Junkers straight key. Still keeping the pencil or keyboard in my left hand.It is a lot easier to write with my left hand and key with the right, although I can do it the other way, for those few times that someone has the paddles backwards for me. Bu
> t it doesn't sound good. Way past the Lake Erie swing... 
> 
> --...   ...--
> Dale - WC7S in Wy
> 
>> Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 21:59:51 -0400
>> From: w3fpr at embarqmail.com
>> To: carlclawson at frontier.com
>> CC: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
>> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Iambic Keying (WAS: Straight key first?)
>> 
>>  OK, I have made a vow to learn to send with my right hand within the 
>> next year, so my left hand is free to write.  Then I will not have to 
>> change any of the transmitters to reverse the paddles anymore.
>> 
>> Being a Southpaw can be a good thing!
>> 
>> 73,
>> Don W3FPR
>> 
> 
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