The KX1 would never know that you connected a single-lever paddle vs. a dual-lever paddle. Dual-lever paddles are not necessarily "normal". They are just more common.
BTW, you suggested you were having a little trouble with iambic keying. Don't feel bad. I did a little informal survey at the last club meeting among the known cw ops there. Out of an even dozen of us, all used a dual-paddle paddle. Only two used either iambic mode. One of those using iambic was relatively new to ham radio, the other had been a cw op for 30 years. The rest of us had been cw ops for 20-48 (me) years. Frankly, iambic keying seems to take an awful lot of effort to learn just to send 4 letters with less energy. If you're having problems with it, don't worry about it. Concentrate on well-formed Morse with whatever you are comfortable with. The important thing is to get on the air and built experience. Eric KE6US -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrea Borgia Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2005 2:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Elecraft] kx1 and single-lever paddles? Question is, does the KX1 internal keyer really care about the paddle being a normal dual-lever model or a single non-iambic one? (backup question: was the question above really dumb? ;-) TIA, Andrea. -- Homepage: http://andrea.borgia.bo.it / Amateur radio: IZ4FHT _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
