[Fists] Do U use an Iambic key iambically?

[Fred Adsit]

I don't use Iambic keying. I either use the bug, or the single-lever Kent 
paddle w keyer.
Iambic keying, if you can master it, reduces the effort. However, the 
reduction is modest at best.
Paddles have a light touch and should not be set so they cause fatigue in 
the first place.
Even my bug has the narrowest travel and lightest tension needed to make 
good dots.

To continue my bug philosophy, maybe a tad off-topic here, I send rather 
machine-like with a bug. If there is any swing in my fist, I have to 
deliberately introduce it.

73 - Fred NY2V / 1293
ex-W2ZOJ 1948

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "GerryC" <gerryc.1 at gmail.com>
To: "Fists" <Fists at mailman.qth.net>; "Mike Zbrozek" <k8xf at netzero.net>
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 11:31 AM
Subject: Re: [Fists] Do U use an Iambic key iambically?


>> .... How many others feel the same and
>> do not use their paddle iambically? ...
>
> Apparently quite a few.  It amazes me how many paddle users don't know
> whether their keyers are Iambic-A or Iambic-B, so they couldn't be using
> iambic.
>
> It did take me time to learn to send iambically, but I consider it time 
> well
> spent!
>
>>...Having big powerful hands  the skill required isnt
>> something I have ever developed
>
> It seems to me that iambic keying (with its fewer motions) would be
> advantageous to you.
>
> 73 de W3GERry