Re: [Elecraft] Rollup rubber keyboard
That's great Jim, I also noticed it very immune to rfi and easy to use. Hey if you spill your drink , coffee etc its no issue, wash it off and towel it down and keep going even if wet. Be great for field day/outside use/dxpeditions etc, the buttons respond well too. I ordered a spare, as they are such a good deal. Adrian ... vk4tux -Original Message- From: Jim Sheldon [mailto:w...@cox.net] Sent: Friday, 10 August 2012 4:29 AM To: Adrian Subject: Rollup rubber keyboard Hi again Adrian, Postman just delivered that cute little rubber roll-up keyboard. Took exactly 30 seconds to fall in love with it. Also, even without any ferrites on it, no RF problems apparent even with the KPA500 running 600+ out on RTTY and the other one would lock up. I did pick up a whole bunch of type 31 snap on ferrites that are about 1.5 inches long and a couple of them killed the problem on the little silver KB. This rubber one is going to be great as I do a lot of the local hamfests as a demo guy for Elecraft, taking my own equipment and showing it off with a tripod mounted homebrew antenna. I usually wind up working some pretty decent DX on RTTY or CW during the demo's and I never run more than 5 watts out at a hamfest to make sure nobody gets an RF burn if they happen to grab the antenna while I'm transmitting. This roll-up KB has a much better feel than I really expected and is really easy to type on. I think I'll order 3 more of them to have one for each laptop and a spare if one fails. Thanks for the info. Jim - W0EB __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Rollup rubber keyboard
Get it here with free shipping Go to http://www.ebay.com.au/ Search for item 160745894556 -Original Message- From: Stephen Roberts [mailto:steve...@shoreham.net] Sent: Friday, 10 August 2012 5:49 AM To: Adrian Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Rollup rubber keyboard I missed the link for this. Can you shoot that to me please? Steve On Aug 9, 2012, at 3:40 PM, Adrian wrote: That's great Jim, I also noticed it very immune to rfi and easy to use. Hey if you spill your drink , coffee etc its no issue, wash it off and towel it down and keep going even if wet. Be great for field day/outside use/dxpeditions etc, the buttons respond well too. I ordered a spare, as they are such a good deal. Adrian ... vk4tux -Original Message- From: Jim Sheldon [mailto:w...@cox.net] Sent: Friday, 10 August 2012 4:29 AM To: Adrian Subject: Rollup rubber keyboard Hi again Adrian, Postman just delivered that cute little rubber roll-up keyboard. Took exactly 30 seconds to fall in love with it. Also, even without any ferrites on it, no RF problems apparent even with the KPA500 running 600+ out on RTTY and the other one would lock up. I did pick up a whole bunch of type 31 snap on ferrites that are about 1.5 inches long and a couple of them killed the problem on the little silver KB. This rubber one is going to be great as I do a lot of the local hamfests as a demo guy for Elecraft, taking my own equipment and showing it off with a tripod mounted homebrew antenna. I usually wind up working some pretty decent DX on RTTY or CW during the demo's and I never run more than 5 watts out at a hamfest to make sure nobody gets an RF burn if they happen to grab the antenna while I'm transmitting. This roll-up KB has a much better feel than I really expected and is really easy to type on. I think I'll order 3 more of them to have one for each laptop and a spare if one fails. Thanks for the info. Jim - W0EB __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html --- Steve Roberts-W1SFR Sudbury, VT __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Rollup rubber keyboard
I had purchased one of these following Adrian's recommendation. It is very inexpensive (about $8) and delivery was only 10 days. When the package arrives from Hong Kong it is deceiving small and light weight. The way it rolls up tight but instantly lies flat is really cool. Here's the current eBay link: http://www.ebay.com/itm/160745894556?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649 Its feel is decent but for my very light touch I found it missing characters. It probably would take me a few sessions of keyboard practice to be fully comfortable with it. I did not do any RF testing but it's good to know that others have. I also purchased another keyboard on Amazon which was also inexpensive (about $10) if you take advantage of the free shipping by buying other items to bring your total over $25. This non-flexible keyboard is a little smaller than the eBay keyboard and has the same feel as any conventional desktop PC keyboard. I have not done any RF testing with it. Here's the current Amazon link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0041A5OGA/ref=oh_details_o01_s00_i01 Both keyboards provided full access to all of the new data features of the P3/SVGA external keyboard input. Although I think I had trouble finding one of the special keys on the Amazon keyboard that is used for the special CW characters shown at the bottom of the DATA screen. I didn't consider this a deal breaker. 73, Mike K2MK vk4tux wrote Get it here with free shipping Go to http://www.ebay.com.au/ Search for item 160745894556 -Original Message- From: Stephen Roberts [mailto:steverob@] Sent: Friday, 10 August 2012 5:49 AM To: Adrian Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Rollup rubber keyboard I missed the link for this. Can you shoot that to me please? Steve On Aug 9, 2012, at 3:40 PM, Adrian wrote: That's great Jim, I also noticed it very immune to rfi and easy to use. Hey if you spill your drink , coffee etc its no issue, wash it off and towel it down and keep going even if wet. Be great for field day/outside use/dxpeditions etc, the buttons respond well too. I ordered a spare, as they are such a good deal. Adrian ... vk4tux -Original Message- From: Jim Sheldon [mailto:w0eb@] Sent: Friday, 10 August 2012 4:29 AM To: Adrian Subject: Rollup rubber keyboard Hi again Adrian, Postman just delivered that cute little rubber roll-up keyboard. Took exactly 30 seconds to fall in love with it. Also, even without any ferrites on it, no RF problems apparent even with the KPA500 running 600+ out on RTTY and the other one would lock up. I did pick up a whole bunch of type 31 snap on ferrites that are about 1.5 inches long and a couple of them killed the problem on the little silver KB. This rubber one is going to be great as I do a lot of the local hamfests as a demo guy for Elecraft, taking my own equipment and showing it off with a tripod mounted homebrew antenna. I usually wind up working some pretty decent DX on RTTY or CW during the demo's and I never run more than 5 watts out at a hamfest to make sure nobody gets an RF burn if they happen to grab the antenna while I'm transmitting. This roll-up KB has a much better feel than I really expected and is really easy to type on. I think I'll order 3 more of them to have one for each laptop and a spare if one fails. Thanks for the info. Jim - W0EB -- View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2.nabble.com/Re-Rollup-rubber-keyboard-tp7560696p7560704.html Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Rollup rubber keyboard
I tried one of these (probably not the same brand) several years ago in conjunction with a mini-notebook for doing digital modes in the field. It produced horrible RFI for me so I eventually gave it away. I guess it's a YMMV type of deal. Tim On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Adrian vk4...@bigpond.com wrote: That's great Jim, I also noticed it very immune to rfi and easy to use. Hey if you spill your drink , coffee etc its no issue, wash it off and towel it down and keep going even if wet. Be great for field day/outside use/dxpeditions etc, the buttons respond well too. I ordered a spare, as they are such a good deal. Adrian ... vk4tux -Original Message- From: Jim Sheldon [mailto:w...@cox.net] Sent: Friday, 10 August 2012 4:29 AM To: Adrian Subject: Rollup rubber keyboard Hi again Adrian, Postman just delivered that cute little rubber roll-up keyboard. Took exactly 30 seconds to fall in love with it. Also, even without any ferrites on it, no RF problems apparent even with the KPA500 running 600+ out on RTTY and the other one would lock up. I did pick up a whole bunch of type 31 snap on ferrites that are about 1.5 inches long and a couple of them killed the problem on the little silver KB. This rubber one is going to be great as I do a lot of the local hamfests as a demo guy for Elecraft, taking my own equipment and showing it off with a tripod mounted homebrew antenna. I usually wind up working some pretty decent DX on RTTY or CW during the demo's and I never run more than 5 watts out at a hamfest to make sure nobody gets an RF burn if they happen to grab the antenna while I'm transmitting. This roll-up KB has a much better feel than I really expected and is really easy to type on. I think I'll order 3 more of them to have one for each laptop and a spare if one fails. Thanks for the info. Jim - W0EB __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html -- --- Owner, worldwidedx.com AE6LX, Amateur Radio NNN0ITA, Navy MARS NNN0GAF FOUR, Southern CA Director Assistant for Training, Navy MARS __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Re: [Elecraft] Rollup rubber keyboard
I had one and while it didn't produce RFI, it was very sensitive to 160/80 meter RF. In fact, I wasn't able to tame it with any practical amount of ferrite when running high power. But as Tim says, you won't know until you try. On 8/9/2012 2:35 PM, Tim Tucker wrote: I tried one of these (probably not the same brand) several years ago in conjunction with a mini-notebook for doing digital modes in the field. It produced horrible RFI for me so I eventually gave it away. I guess it's a YMMV type of deal. Tim On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Adrian vk4...@bigpond.com wrote: That's great Jim, I also noticed it very immune to rfi and easy to use. Hey if you spill your drink , coffee etc its no issue, wash it off and towel it down and keep going even if wet. Be great for field day/outside use/dxpeditions etc, the buttons respond well too. I ordered a spare, as they are such a good deal. Adrian ... vk4tux -Original Message- From: Jim Sheldon [mailto:w...@cox.net] Sent: Friday, 10 August 2012 4:29 AM To: Adrian Subject: Rollup rubber keyboard Hi again Adrian, Postman just delivered that cute little rubber roll-up keyboard. Took exactly 30 seconds to fall in love with it. Also, even without any ferrites on it, no RF problems apparent even with the KPA500 running 600+ out on RTTY and the other one would lock up. I did pick up a whole bunch of type 31 snap on ferrites that are about 1.5 inches long and a couple of them killed the problem on the little silver KB. This rubber one is going to be great as I do a lot of the local hamfests as a demo guy for Elecraft, taking my own equipment and showing it off with a tripod mounted homebrew antenna. I usually wind up working some pretty decent DX on RTTY or CW during the demo's and I never run more than 5 watts out at a hamfest to make sure nobody gets an RF burn if they happen to grab the antenna while I'm transmitting. This roll-up KB has a much better feel than I really expected and is really easy to type on. I think I'll order 3 more of them to have one for each laptop and a spare if one fails. Thanks for the info. Jim - W0EB -- Vic, K2VCO Fresno CA http://www.qsl.net/k2vco/ __ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
