Hi Ron, Not exactly. What I have is a couple of small pneumatic switches (mounted in the large wooden box seen in the photo) which I operate by sipping and puffing on a tube attached between the two. Each switch activates one of the two relays you see mounted at the lever end of the bug. A light puff or blow through the tube activates one relay (the bottom actuator) which presses the bug lever to the right (from the operator's perspective) sending dits. A sip on the tube activates the other relay (on top) which presses the bug's lever to the left and closes the dah contact.
I'm not very good with the bug, but I use it to ragchew with my elmer WB4CSG one or two times a week. When not using the bug, I send CW using a sip-n-puff device and either a radio's built-in keyer or an external keyer. The March 2004 edition of QST featured an article describing a sip-n-puff device similar to the one I use. http://w4dit.wilsonarc.org/images/fd05/sip-n-puff06.jpg http://w4dit.wilsonarc.org/images/fd05/sip-n-puff07.jpg I also have a sip-n-puff creation which "emulates" a cootie key or side-swiper, but I am absolutely terrible with it. Awful. Unreadable. I'm lucky if I get two characters sent before I screw up. My mind just refuses to work that way. Sam, my elmer, can send near-perfect code with it. 72 Greg K4KO Tennessee QSO Party - September 10 http://www.k4ro.net/tcg/tqp/rules/tqp06_rules.html -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ron D'Eau Claire Sent: Friday, June 16, 2006 1:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [Elecraft] High End Paddles Ha! Ha! I've often asked for a "bug emulator" mode for the keyer so I could key like a bug using the paddles when portable, but pundits always jump up and tell me that I'd be unhappy with the feel of paddles. They're right, of course, and that's now why I wanted it. I just wanted to keep the bug operation, including the ability to send American Morse (which keyers don't allow because it requires using varying lengths of dashes) when using paddles portable in the field. So, instead of having a bug emulator for a keyer, you've come up with the same thing to allow using paddles with a bug! Ron AC7AC -----Original Message----- > Using a bug is a very a *physical* activity compared to > keyer paddles. Ron AC7AC Not the way I do it. :) http://wilsonarc.org/images/s-n-p_vibroplex_bug-001.jpg http://wilsonarc.org/images/s-n-p_vibroplex_bug-002.jpg http://wilsonarc.org/images/n4wsm_snp01.jpg _______________________________________________ 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
