[Elecraft] Rollup rubber keyboard

[Tim Tucker]

I tried one of these (probably not the same brand) several years ago in
conjunction with a mini-notebook for doing digital modes in the field.  It
produced horrible RFI for me so I eventually gave it away.  I guess it's a
YMMV type of deal.

Tim

On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Adrian <vk4tux at bigpond.com> 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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