[Elecraft] Rollup rubber keyboard

[Adrian]

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-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Roberts [mailto:steverob at shoreham.net] 
Sent: Friday, 10 August 2012 5:49 AM
To: Adrian
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Rollup rubber keyboard

I missed the link for this. Can you shoot that to me please?

Steve



On Aug 9, 2012, at 3:40 PM, Adrian wrote:

> That's great Jim, I also noticed it very immune to rfi and easy to use.
> 
> Hey if you spill your drink , coffee etc its no issue, wash it off and 
> towel it down and keep going even if wet.
> 
> Be great for field day/outside use/dxpeditions etc, the buttons 
> respond well too.
> 
> I ordered a spare, as they are such a good deal.
> 
> Adrian ... vk4tux
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Sheldon [mailto:w0eb at cox.net]
> Sent: Friday, 10 August 2012 4:29 AM
> To: Adrian
> Subject: Rollup rubber keyboard
> 
> Hi again Adrian,
> Postman just delivered that cute little rubber roll-up keyboard.  Took 
> exactly 30 seconds to fall in love with it.  Also, even without any 
> ferrites on it, no RF problems apparent even with the KPA500 running 
> 600+ out on RTTY and the other one would lock up.  I did pick up a 
> whole bunch of type 31 snap on ferrites that are about 1.5 inches long 
> and a couple of them killed the problem on the little silver KB.  This 
> rubber one is going to be great as I do a lot of the local hamfests as 
> a demo guy for Elecraft, taking my own equipment and showing it off 
> with a tripod mounted homebrew antenna.  I usually wind up working 
> some pretty decent DX on RTTY or CW during the demo's and I never run 
> more than 5 watts out at a hamfest to make sure nobody gets an RF burn 
> if they happen to grab the antenna while I'm transmitting.
> 
> This roll-up KB has a much better feel than I really expected and is 
> really easy to type on.  I think I'll order 3 more of them to have one 
> for each laptop and a spare if one fails.
> 
> Thanks for the info.
> 
> Jim - W0EB
> 
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Steve Roberts-W1SFR
Sudbury, VT