I tried one of these (probably not the same brand) several years ago in conjunction with a mini-notebook for doing digital modes in the field. It produced horrible RFI for me so I eventually gave it away. I guess it's a YMMV type of deal.
Tim On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Adrian <vk4...@bigpond.com> wrote: > That's great Jim, I also noticed it very immune to rfi and easy to use. > > Hey if you spill your drink , coffee etc its no issue, wash it off and > towel > it down and keep going even if wet. > > Be great for field day/outside use/dxpeditions etc, the buttons respond > well > too. > > I ordered a spare, as they are such a good deal. > > Adrian ... vk4tux > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Sheldon [mailto:w...@cox.net] > Sent: Friday, 10 August 2012 4:29 AM > To: Adrian > Subject: Rollup rubber keyboard > > Hi again Adrian, > Postman just delivered that cute little rubber roll-up keyboard. Took > exactly 30 seconds to fall in love with it. Also, even without any > ferrites > on it, no RF problems apparent even with the KPA500 running 600+ out on > RTTY > and the other one would lock up. I did pick up a whole bunch of type 31 > snap on ferrites that are about 1.5 inches long and a couple of them killed > the problem on the little silver KB. This rubber one is going to be great > as I do a lot of the local hamfests as a demo guy for Elecraft, taking my > own equipment and showing it off with a tripod mounted homebrew antenna. I > usually wind up working some pretty decent DX on RTTY or CW during the > demo's and I never run more than 5 watts out at a hamfest to make sure > nobody gets an RF burn if they happen to grab the antenna while I'm > transmitting. > > This roll-up KB has a much better feel than I really expected and is really > easy to type on. I think I'll order 3 more of them to have one for each > laptop and a spare if one fails. > > Thanks for the info. > > Jim - W0EB > > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 > -- --------------------------------------- Owner, worldwidedx.com AE6LX, Amateur Radio NNN0ITA, Navy MARS NNN0GAF FOUR, Southern CA Director Assistant for Training, Navy MARS ______________________________________________________________ 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
