[Elecraft] Bug mode on K3?

[Fred Jensen]

Folks, I actually have a "real" Vibroplex, given to me by a friend who 
was a Coast Guard Radioman.  It has all the problems of a basic 
Vibroplex, mainly dots way too fast.   I tried putting a little cable 
clamp on it as some of my crew did years ago, but that adds a lot of 
inertia and probably accounts for why I slap my iambic paddle around now 
... no squeezing.  My Lionel J-36, beat up as it was, ran just fine and 
I had the only perfect fist on the radio. :-)  Once I moved to 
electronic keyers, of increasing complexity, I can't go back to a bug, 
nor do I want to, I'm old and manual dexterity is waning [along with 
other things].

73,

Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 50th Running of the Cal QSO Party 3-4 Oct 2015
- www.cqp.org

On 12/9/2014 7:41 PM, Al Gulseth wrote:
> Agreed on "bang for the buck"; another in that category IMHO is the Kent SP-1.
> I have both, with a slight edge to the Kent, but YMMV. And, for the op who
> wants the feel of a bug with an electronic keyer, the Vibroplex "VibroKeyer"
> is still in production... fifty years after it was introduced....