A lot of people talk about how difficult squeeze keying is to learn. I sure don't want to lessen their position, but I confess I find it baffling. To me squeeze keying is very natural and intuitive. I went from a straight key to a keyer years ago without learning a bug or cootie key. Maybe that had something to do with it. I learned iambic squeeze keying when I was doing CW at 8 wpm. Maybe that had something to do with it.
Many years later I learned to use a bug (lot's of fun BTW). It did take me a while, but that had more to do with learning to form dashes manually. Learning to not squeeze was the easy part. I guess after years (decades) of buggin', many ops find it hard to retrain the muscles and brain to send CW with a slightly different pattern. I'm interested in a single lever paddle so I can use it as a cootie (my next mountain to conquer). 73! - Keith N1AS - - K3 711 - -----Original Message----- From: David Ferrington, M0XDF I think I'd like to see Ultimatic mode too, I'm thinking I'll have to learn Iambic though, because most rigs don't support Ultimatic. But Ultimatic does sound like the easier and frankly, more logical mode. Maybe I'll have to borrow a friends keyer to give it a try. 73 de M0XDF, K3 #174 _______________________________________________ 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
