On 8/12/2012 3:44 PM, Bill K9YEQ wrote: > In 1971 in Germany in the Army Signal Corps, we convinced our COL to upgrade > us to a 90 WPM RTTY machine so we wouldn't get stalled by the sluggish > nature of the 60WPM. To this day, I wonder how I typed that fast as I sure > suck today! Noisy is was!!!
Copying CW direct to TTY tape was hugely easy for that reason. As long as he wasn't sending at 60 WPM [like I have ever been able to make record copy at that speed :-)], you just pressed the keys, with a lot of travel, and it went from ears to fingers with no intermediate stops. It was much the same on the Underwood open-frame mills -- long key travel, you really knew you were pressing the key, and it became something of a finger dance. Today's computer keyboards are much harder for me for record copy, I don't really get the physical sense of pressing the keys, and I tend to wear them out ... pounding far more than I need to. My laptop is the worst. Regarding Ultimatic, I've tried it, never practiced, basically didn't like it all that much. My K3 and Winkey USB are both iambic, too old, don't use it. But, to each his own. The K3 keyer is all firmware, ultimatic could probably be added as an option if enough address space is available. Time is probably the big issue for Wayne/Eric and Company, no one could wait quietly for the K3, then KPA500, KX3, and now KAT500, I'll bet their engineering agendas are very full. 73, Fred K6DGW - Northern California Contest Club - CU in the 2012 Cal QSO Party 6-7 Oct 2012 - www.cqp.org ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
