[Elecraft] Cheap keyer paddle?
Alan Bloom
alan at elecraft.com
Fri Sep 18 01:09:09 EDT 2020
I am currently "sheltering in place" far from home and would like to set
up a station here. I'm an 11-hour drive from home so I need to buy all
new accessories.
I already have a good Vibroplex key paddle at home so I don't need
another high-quality one. The good ones seem to start at around $175,
which is way more than I want to pay for temporary use. I once made a
homebrew paddle made out of bent aluminum sheet metal and a pair of
micro switches for the dot and dash contacts. ("A Lightweight Homemade
Keyer Paddle", QST, July 2009). I was satisfied with that paddle, so
you can see that I am not obsessive about "feel".
So who makes a decent, inexpensive key paddle? (By the way, I don't
need the iambic feature, so a single-lever model would be fine.)
Alan N1AL
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