Folks, I actually have a "real" Vibroplex, given to me by a friend who
was a Coast Guard Radioman. It has all the problems of a basic
Vibroplex, mainly dots way too fast. I tried putting a little cable
clamp on it as some of my crew did years ago, but that adds a lot of
inertia and probably accounts for why I slap my iambic paddle around now
... no squeezing. My Lionel J-36, beat up as it was, ran just fine and
I had the only perfect fist on the radio. :-) Once I moved to
electronic keyers, of increasing complexity, I can't go back to a bug,
nor do I want to, I'm old and manual dexterity is waning [along with
other things].
73,
Fred K6DGW
- Northern California Contest Club
- CU in the 50th Running of the Cal QSO Party 3-4 Oct 2015
- www.cqp.org
On 12/9/2014 7:41 PM, Al Gulseth wrote:
Agreed on "bang for the buck"; another in that category IMHO is the Kent SP-1.
I have both, with a slight edge to the Kent, but YMMV. And, for the op who
wants the feel of a bug with an electronic keyer, the Vibroplex "VibroKeyer"
is still in production... fifty years after it was introduced....
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