If you slap it, it should [work like a bug]. If you squeeze, all bets are
off. Element insertion, and all that.
VERY interesting idea, tho. Someone should try this and report back. (I
can't - I have no idea how a bug should act). I've squeezed since before my
first license (N4GMN, a Technician if
Don Brown wrote:
This should make the K2
keyer work exactly like a bug. Just a thought. I have not tried it but it
looks like it would work.
I've never tried this sort of thing, although some other keyers have an
explictly selectable 'bug mode'. However, I doubt that it would sound
like a
Don and all,
Yes, that is possible electrically, and it will work, BUT - it will drive
you nuts unless you have perfect timing with the dashes with respect to the
start and end of the automatically generated dits - I have tried it with
several keyers including the K2 just for fun. Mechanical
I tried this several years ago. It worked for a while, but at times it went
into keyer mode. Don't remember exactly what I got, or why, but I couldn't
use it. I havn't had trouble switching from bug to keyer because the bug
has a much heavier action and that acts as a tell to get me in the
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