[Fists] Re: More questions on sending.

[kiyoinc at attglobal.net]

David Shrader W1MCE at comcast.net wrote:

> I bought an ICOM 746 in 2000 and 'upgraded' to a paddle and the internal keyer. 
> What a disaster!! After 35 years with a bug the keyer was impossible! I took me 
> almost a year to be able to send 15 wpm basically error free.
> 
> It is almost seven years later and I am not comfortable with a paddle/keyer 
> combination. I don't think I'd go back to a bug, but the keyer is tough!

Uh-oh.  I thought I'd be able to operate after a few months.

I guess when I was 16, it was easier to learn the bug and now that I'm 
-cough-cough- 60, I can expect it to take a little longer to complete 
the switch to the keyer.

I did a little more practice tonight but seem to have lost it.  I 
cleaned off the corner of my desk so I can rest my elbow on it. Then I 
tried a couple different positions.  I'm still not getting my thumb off 
the paddle early enough.

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