You are referring to Steve Roberts, this guy: <http://microship.com/>
It's even more amazing than you describe! On 4/3/2012 8:05 PM, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote: > Years ago, when the Internet was still young, a fellow rode across the USA > on his bicycle equipped with a solar panel charged the battery of an early > "laptop" computer. He blogged (the term hadn't been invented yet, IIRC) and > e-mailed while riding. He did that using an 8-key keyboard operated with the > fingers of each hand squeezing switches mounted on the grips of his > handlebars so he never needed to take his attention off of steering with > both hands. Combinations of squeezes represented every letter on the > keyboard (no Morse involved, sigh). > > He had to wait until he found a source of a wired internet connection to > send his e-mails and blog to his editor documenting his trip. > > IIRC he was also a Ham and had at least a 2-meter FM rig on the bike too, > but it was a long time ago and I may be mixing up two adventures. > > But the 8-finger "keyboard" was very interesting. > > Ron AC7AC -- Vic, K2VCO Fresno CA http://www.qsl.net/k2vco/ ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
