I remember the Curtis keyboards, I actually have an old Heath Keyboard
keyer, (plugs directly into the rig), and had an InfoTech keyboard which
worked for a lot of contacts until it just quit one day. When I was very
young in hamming, (fifteen years old or so), having a CW keyboard was my
dream because could already copy very fast, so didn't want to worry about
mistakes in sending though I could use a keyer at up to about 35 wpm pretty
good. :) Those are the days and still wish I had the rig again and antennas
again to be on CW qrp or just on the air again. :)
I even remember paper tape and the machine which made it. Also, use to send
code practice sometimes using a keyer, was pretty accurate. I remember W 6 O
Z cw practice, and, of course, W 1 A W.
Curtis Delzer
W B 6 H E F
Fessenden, ND (use to be Sacramento, CA.)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brett Winches" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 6:10 PM
Subject: Re: keyboard
What is a begali simplex ? =20
I like my Chicago Spies works straight key. However a friend of mine
had a straight key with about a 9 to 12 inch long leaver but I never did
get to send much code with it as he had not hooked it up when I saw it.
He also had a original WU sounder set presented to him on his retirement
from WU. It was brass silver plated on a walnut plaque. =20
=20
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BRETT WINCHESTER
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208-639-8386
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-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Lou Kolb
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 3:42 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: keyboard
Yes, and this thing has lots of memory space and a 200 character
type-ahead buffer which is great for ragchewing. I can type much better
than I can work the iambic paddles. I swear, I'm going to pick up a
begali simplex mono one of these days. Lou
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brett Winches" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 4:18 PM
Subject: Re: keyboard
> I like the idea of separate keyboards as you can likely log faster
with
> two than do the task switching. Just a guess however. =3D20
>
>
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> BRETT WINCHESTER
> [log in to unmask]
> 208-639-8386
> ###
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: For blind ham radio operators
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Lou Kolb
> Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2007 2:53 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: keyboard
>
> If you can spend 60 bucks and have some one who can put together a
> simple kit for you try
>
> http://www.k1el.com
>
> he makes several keyers for use with a computer and the k40 which is a
> stand alone keyboard keyer. I've had mine for a year and a half now
and
> absolutely love it. It's gotten my speed up to 40 wpm and I operate
> much more cw than I used to . Lou WA3MIX
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Howard Kaufman" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, October 28, 2007 10:27 AM
> Subject: keyboard
>
>
> > Has anybody found a usable program to turn my pc in to a cw
keyboard
> that
> > will key a radio? I have everything I need except the program to
key
> the
> > contacts in the rs232 cable that would key the ts480. I know the
> bencher
> is
> > fine, but I'd like to try cw from a keyboard.
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