[SOC] Iambic

[Lloyd Lachow]

--- Hiroshi Mochimaru <jp1pxb@cam.hi-ho.ne.jp> wrote:
> The question is, where is the word of "Iambic" come
> from?
> Is this toolship from England?
> Is this someone's name who invent Mode A and Mode B?
> or some technical jargon?
> Please let me know.



Ted,
 
  An iamb is a literary term, for two syllables, with
the first being unstressed, and the second stressed.

   Many poems, especially many sonnets, were written
with five iambs in a line, known as iambic pentameter.
An example, from Milton: 
"When I consider how my light is spent,"

 and from Shakepeare:
 "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"

  Electronic keyers, which are used mostly with dual
paddles, can send alternating dits and dahs in
streams, when both paddles are squeezed at the same
time. Each didah combination, then, can be thought of
as an "iamb," hence the term iambic keying. Some feel
that it's the keyer which is iambic, not the paddles.

  The first iambic keying mode to be developed was
iambic A, and iambic B came later. The differences can
be found here:

  http://home.att.net/~jacksonharbor/modeab.pdf


  or here:


   http://www.qsl.net/ok1rr/curtisa_b.html

  Regards,





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