Steve,
You want Ultimatic mode. It makes a dual lever paddle operate almost
like a single lever. To quote from the K1EL K12 keyer manual, "In
Ultimatic mode when both paddles are pressed the keyer will send a
continuous stream of whichever paddle was last pressed." That makes the
hand motions identical to using a single lever paddle.
The small K1EL keyers that support Ultimatic keying are a must for me
because it is not built-in to any transceiver internal keyer as far as I
know.
73,
Don W3FPR
n4lq wrote:
It's not the single vs. dual lever issue that bothers these guys. It's
the iambic mode, a or b. Mode B has been the standard since the early
70's. TenTec came out with their KR-40 which is mode b and ever since
then mode A has been a step child. All JA rigs use mode B now.
Basically, mode B has enough brains to know if you held in a lever
long enough to produce the last element without actually starting to
send it. People who learned on mode B, trying to send the letter C on
a mode A machine will end up sending the letter K. The last dit is
dropped because it wants you to hold in the dit button until that dit
has started to form. Mode A people who try to send C end up sending KA
_._._ because they hold the dit lever in too long. Both modes are
iambic since holding in both levers results in alternate dits and
dahs. It's just a matter of when to let go!
A single lever paddle works equally well with either mode. In fact
when you consider the entire alphabet, less finger movement is
required with the single lever paddle. This came as a shock to me.
Check the letter C. On a single lever we swing left, right, left,
right. That's 4 movements. With duals, we (push left and hold), (push
right and hold), (release left), (release right) for letter C. So we
have the same number of movements with either paddle. Now let's do A.
With single lever we swing left, swing right, release. 3 moves. With
duals, we push left and hold, push right, release left, release right.
4 moves! It all happens so fast that you don't realize you are doing it.
The Kent single lever paddle is a precision device. I prefer a wider
finger piece over the thin paddle Kent uses however.
The K3 works well with either single or duals. It doesn't know the
difference.
Steve Ellington
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----- Original Message ----- From: "WILLIS COOKE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Jack Regan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, August 31, 2008 6:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Kent Single Lever Paddles
Why do you need special interface for a single lever paddle? It
works the same as an Iambic paddle except that you can't close both
contacts at once.
Willis 'Cookie' Cooke
K5EWJ
--- On Sun, 8/31/08, Jack Regan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: Jack Regan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Elecraft] Kent Single Lever Paddles
To: [email protected]
Date: Sunday, August 31, 2008, 3:10 PM
Last week I asked K3 Support if single lever paddle support
was on the to
"to do" list. Gary Surrency responded that it
was not but would be
considered.
within days the answer came back that it would not be
supported due to the
small number of users affected.
At first I was a little annoyed but now I am all right with
that decision
because I have found that I can in fact use my Kent paddle
with a slap and
dash technique with the K3 internal keyer just the way it
is.
1. I changed my weighting to 1.25 and selected MODE
A.
2. I used the TEXT DECODE function to get feedback.
3. I made sure I was consistently as fast as possible
with my keying
of elements within a character when switching from dot(s)
to dash(es).
This technique "cured" my problem of things like
CQ being seen NNMET!!!!
Using the TEXT DECODE function also helped with getting rid
of unwanted
Farnsworth spacing between characters. The better I get at
hearing CW the
more annoying it becomes. It also makes sending a more
natural rhythm.
BTW, before I worked this method out I hooked up my
microHam CW Keyer and
used it and it worked FB with no effort on my part but I
resented having an
extra box and extra cables on my desk! In an attempt to
clean up my station
I went back to using the K3 keyer and worked things out!
Not only did I get
rid of the external keyer and cables but now the Kent
single lever paddle is
plugged into the paddle jack and so TEXT DECODE as well as
TERMINAL mode in
the K3 Utility both work on send and receive.
Jack AE6GC, K3 1433, KX1 1403
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