Sorry, a technical difficulty in my mind. I take a photo of my station
periodically, usually when I change something. I found the paddle in
question, it was somewhat old when it was given to me. It is *not* a
hexkey, it has a trapazoidal base, narrower in back. It does have the
"yoke" arrangement of the BY-1 but it is more square-ish. From the
photo angle, I can't see if it had the spring looped around the post.
I also have a photo of my HexKey from Elecraft and it is *definitely
not* a BY-1 mechanism. I would still have it, and the $400+ wife spent
on the ZN-SL single-lever for my birthday, were it not for my decreasing
ability to manipulate the dual paddle with either hand. It, and the two
BY-1's I still have, were/are touchy to adjust. I never became
iambicized so I lost nothing going to the SL and regained the ability to
send over 25 WPM.
I apologize for the mixup
73,
Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn
Washoe County
On 1/10/2018 11:49 AM, Lyle Johnson wrote:
[private]
Hello Fred!
I have a BY-1 as well as an Elecraft-branded Hex key.
The mechanisms on the two paddles I own are completely different.
The BY-1 uses a spring looped around a post for return force.
The Hex Key uses magnets for return force adjustments. Unlike the
BY-1, both paddle arms on the Hex key are independently adjustable for
travel as well as force.
I agree with you that they botched it a bit by using coarse instead of
fine threaded screws for adjustment, and on mine at least the magnets
are not well-centered on the screws which makes the force adjustment
even more difficult to fine-tune.
73,
Lyle KK7P
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