[SOC] Bug keys. Iambic ... (Myth ?)

Fri Apr 1 02:47:12 EDT 2016

> To: soc at mailman.qth.net
> From: n7xy at n7xy.net
> Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 17:24:55 -0700
> Subject: Re: [SOC] Bug keys.
> 
> On 3/31/16 10:57 AM, Frank S. Tapley wrote:
> > There is nothing so magnificent and remarkable looking as a real "bug" key.
> > What a charmer it can be sitting on the desk in front of the rig. Especially
> > the chromed up ones. BUT, I agree with posting by Peter. Most of them sound
> > like two pieces of steel being hit together, "chink-chink-chink'itty chink."
> > And too many ops run the letters together like it's a off key 1910 tellatype
> > machine. ( Yes, I know, they weren't in existence then, that's what I mean.)
> 
> Actually, they were, but barely.  Per Wikipedia, "In 1910, the Morkrum 
> Company designed and installed the first commercial teletypewriter 
> system on Postal Telegraph Company lines between Boston and New York 
> City using the "Blue Code Version" of the Morkrum Printing Telegraph".  
> Morkrum was one of the predecessors of Teletype 
> Corporation.^<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletype_Corporation#cite_note-6> 
> 
> 
> My coordination isn't really good enough to operate a bug very well 
> anymore (let alone a straight key) but I still have my ~1952 Vibroplex 
> plus a much newer model I picked up along the way.   I never really 
> liked my Bencher BY-1 paddle but my Begali Simplex is a different story 
> altogether.  I also have a Kent single-paddle key which isn't bad (I 
> never have been able to master iambic squeeze keying).
> 
> Bob, N7XY
> 

Well, how true it is, I dont know. But there are some who have put pen to paper on the idea that the Iambic bit of iambic keying is as much use as an ash tray on a motorbike.

http://www.morsex.com/pubs/iambicmyth.pdf

I can see what they are shooting at, but It's still fun to try, even though I do feel sorry for the motorists behind me.

Best Regards,

John. G7JMZ.

> >
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