[Elecraft] Hexkey correction and abject apology

[Fred Jensen]

Sorry, a technical difficulty in my mind.  I take a photo of my station 
periodically, usually when I change something.  I found the paddle in 
question, it was somewhat old when it was given to me.  It is *not* a 
hexkey, it has a trapazoidal base, narrower in back.  It does have the 
"yoke" arrangement of the BY-1 but it is more square-ish.  From the 
photo angle, I can't see if it had the spring looped around the post.

I also have a photo of my HexKey from Elecraft and it is *definitely 
not* a BY-1 mechanism.  I would still have it, and the $400+ wife spent 
on the ZN-SL single-lever for my birthday, were it not for my decreasing 
ability to manipulate the dual paddle with either hand.  It, and the two 
BY-1's I still have, were/are touchy to adjust.  I never became 
iambicized so I lost nothing going to the SL and regained the ability to 
send over 25 WPM.

I apologize for the mixup

73,

Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn
Washoe County

On 1/10/2018 11:49 AM, Lyle Johnson wrote:
> [private]
>
> Hello Fred!
>
> I have a BY-1 as well as an Elecraft-branded Hex key.
>
> The mechanisms on the two paddles I own are completely different.
>
> The BY-1 uses a spring looped around a post for return force.
>
> The Hex Key uses magnets for return force adjustments.  Unlike the 
> BY-1, both paddle arms on the Hex key are independently adjustable for 
> travel as well as force.
>
> I agree with you that they botched it a bit by using coarse instead of 
> fine threaded screws for adjustment, and on mine at least the magnets 
> are not well-centered on the screws which makes the force adjustment 
> even more difficult to fine-tune.
>
> 73,
>
> Lyle KK7P