[Fists] Bugs V Iambics V Straights

[LJ Dumas]

I've also found I can't use a bug below 20 wpm or so. 
Iambics get painful to me below about 15 wpm, so
anything slower I go to a straight key.

I know a lot of folks dislike the 'swing' of an ops
fist using a straight key or bug, but I love it. 
Listening to someone's fist was how you knew whom you
were talking to, especially on 500 KHz maritime.

I guess I'm a dinosaur, but I like hearing the
uniqueness of a human fist versus the perfection of
machine code.  Just a mariner thing I guess (USCG
Radioman 1980-83; still serving 2007!).

73 OM FB dit dit

L Joseph Dumas
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