[Elecraft] Keys as jewelry

[Dauer, Edward]

My Morse fist is better than my typing.  I accidentally left out of the
paragraph below, in my first post, the fact that I now use a dual paddle
Bencher, though I never use the iambic function.  Alan¹s response, and
others¹, raise two questions:  Putting aside the self-evident virtue of
the maxim that ³whoever dies with the most toys, wins,² in what way is a
Begali (or equivalent) superior to a much cheaper Bencher (or equivalent)?
 I need a plausible excuse for buying one.  Second, I know the theory of
iambic keying (e.g. the letter C is a squeeze rather than four movements);
but never having tried to master it, I wonder - is the difference
noticeable in practice - e.g. after 10 or 12 hours of CW contesting?

Finally, on the question of sending ³de² before a callsign, there is a
large difference between pileups and contests on the one hand (call sign
only) and casual QSOs on the other.

SK, KN1CBR


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>Message: 10
>Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2014 11:54:48 -0700 (MST)
>From: kd7gc <kd7gc at q.com>
>To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
>Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 CW decoder . . .
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>Begali paddles are more like jewelry than something so plain-jane and
>ubiquitous as a code key.  I send my CW via keyboard now, but I still
>want to have a number of Begali?s many models on my desk, even though I
>will probably hardly ever use them.  They are simply fantastic!
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>73
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>Alan/KD7GC
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>Alan R. Downing
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>Phoenix, AZ
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>From: Dauer, Edward [via Elecraft]
>[mailto:ml-node+s365791n7595320h5 at n2.nabble.com]
>Sent: Monday, December 01, 2014 11:13 AM
>To: kd7gc
>Subject: K3 CW decoder . . .
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>FWIW, I agree 100% with Dale (below) and with some of the other comments
>in this thread, based on 57 years of 99.9% CW.  Specifically:
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>Although I used a straight key for my novice year (in 1957) and a
>Vibroplex bug from then until about 10 years ago, I doubt that any of
>that 
>learning helped my electronic fist when I started using electronic keyers
>like those in the K3 and the KX3.  Although I have been tempted by a
>Begali, I am hard pressed to explain to myself why I want one (which,
>truthfully, I do.)
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>F