[Elecraft] Foot switches

[Grant Youngman]

> On Jun 8, 2018, at 2:27 PM, Ralph Parker <ve7xf at shaw.ca> wrote:
> 
> >>Why in the 20 century we need to use foot switch?
> 


Mostly because it’s sometimes tiring to listen to the coughs, sneezes, shouted answers to the spouse in some other room when dinner’s ready, belches, dropped tools, shuffling paper, the dog running into the room and barking, and all manner of other stuff that ends up on the air.  Plus the inevitable sounds of shifting headsets, or fingers distractedly rubbing at the mic cartridge while the op picks at that protuberant thing right above the philtrum  … 

Not everyone uses a downward expander to keep ersatz stuff minimized, and even that doesn’t work for everything.  Broadcasters (and AM hams), of course leave the carrier and audio up all the time.  But they frequently have the courtesy (an anit-vox?) to have a “mic mute” or “cough button” located within reach.

I’ll take PTT or a large quality foot-switch anytime … clean, simple, not fiddly.  Don’t like VOX.  Never did.

Grant NQ5T
K3 #2091, KX3 #8342