[Elecraft] For the CW OPS

[Vic K2VCO]

You are referring to Steve Roberts, this guy: <http://microship.com/>

It's even more amazing than you describe!

On 4/3/2012 8:05 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:
> Years ago, when the Internet was still young, a fellow rode across the USA
> on his bicycle equipped with a solar panel charged the battery of an early
> "laptop" computer. He blogged (the term hadn't been invented yet, IIRC) and
> e-mailed while riding. He did that using an 8-key keyboard operated with the
> fingers of each hand squeezing switches mounted on the grips of his
> handlebars so he never needed to take his attention off of steering with
> both hands. Combinations of squeezes represented every letter on the
> keyboard (no Morse involved, sigh).
>
> He had to wait until he found a source of a wired internet connection to
> send his e-mails and blog to his editor documenting his trip.
>
> IIRC he was also a Ham and had at least a 2-meter FM rig on the bike too,
> but it was a long time ago and I may be mixing up two adventures.
>
> But the 8-finger "keyboard" was very interesting.
>
> Ron AC7AC


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