[Elecraft] CW with my K3s and KX3

[Mike Morrow]

That's a very good and comprehensive list of suggestions, Fred.  I've only one nit to pick in this statement:

> 3.  86 the keyboard and send with paddle/bug/J-38

Avoid the J-38 military straight key.  The common J-38 was used in military service ONLY for Morse training.  The equally-common J-37 is the Signal Corps key most often used with real front-line sets that might be exposed to combat environments.  However, the Navy Type 26003 key is the finest of common military straight keys.  It's what I use if forced to use an Asian-origin commercial ham rig.  They seem not to know how to make a transceiver capable of Mode A iambic keying.  I'd rub two wires together before I'd ever try using the horrific Mode B that almost all Asian ham rigs force on buyers.  I really appreciate how every Elecraft rig ever made allows great Mode A iambic keying, so I don't often need to break out my 26003 straight key.

Mike / KK5F