[Hallicrafters] HA-1 TO Keyer Operation

[Roger K8RI]

The keyer is not Iambic.


>I just got an HA-1 keyer - have a question about how it should operate.
>
> If you keep the dit side of the key pressed and hit the dah side, it will 
> insert a dah in the string of dits. Sending something like an "R" is easy.
>
> But it won't insert a dit in a string of dah's - is that the way it should 
> work?

Yup!

  Sending something like a "C" is very different than with a late model
> iambic keyer.
>

The keyer was designed to work with a straight paddle such as the vibroplex 
although I think there are other makes out there.  For those us us who spent 
years on the straight paddle we tend to use iambic paddles (squeeze keys) as 
if they are a single paddle.  I worked for weeks untill I could used the 
Iambic properly.  I was off the air for a few months and when I went back I 
was right back to using it like the single paddle. If I concentrate I can 
use it as a squeeze key, but as soon as I quit concentrating my body shifts 
right back to single paddle mode. I finally gave up and use my Bencher as if 
it were single paddle.

Roger Halstead (K8RI and ARRL 40 year Life Member)
N833R - World's oldest Debonair CD-2
www.rogerhalstead.com

> Thanks
>
> Paul W2LE
>
>
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