Hi Jerry, I made the decision to use a single lever paddle and not learn the "squeeze" technique needed to run a dual lever paddle. Several reasons: The truly high speed guys use single lever paddles--they feel they make fewer mistakes with the single lever. If you learn the single lever technique you can use a dual lever paddle and just not "squeeze" The dual lever technique doesn't save that much time. I think that a lot of the impetus to a dual lever is "CQ", both letters are "squeeze" letters and if you are sending it a lot it is easier to send repeated CQ's with a dual lever paddle. I think regular practice is needed with both single an dual lever paddles. I am fond of my Begali Sculpture single lever, along with my Tony Baleno single lever. If you go single lever, if you occasionally use a dual lever paddle you will be happier with minimal space between the paddles; it's closer to the distance your fingers need to move for the single lever. Begali's Magnum has a very narrow space and I use it as well as my Sculpture single lever. Tony Baleno of N3ZN keys will make a dual lever with what ever spacing between the paddles you want. Hope this helps. 73 Mike KD8RQE In a message dated 11/9/2017 9:31:16 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, jso...@comcast.net writes:
Hello, I'm a "no-code-ham" determined to become a "know-code-ham" and so have signed up to a course by CWops. They require a paddle for sending practice since lessons will be done at 20-wpm. Having researched the topic of 'paddles' and from that effort, I think that a single paddle might work best for me. Here are the negative items which helped form that opinion: 1. a comment that regular practice is needed to maintain competence with a dual-paddle, 2. iambic-a or iambic-b just seem physically complicated. In reading my KX3-manual and Fred-KE7X's book, it seems to me that the KXPD3 is capable of only dual-paddle operating. Or have I missed something? I understand that my KX3 has a second port for an external key (I presume a single-paddle). In the past, I recall seeing photos of hams working KX3-portable with a straight-key but, at those times, I did not pay attention if any had a paddle. TIA for any reply. 73 Jerry KM3K ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to kd8...@aol.com ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
