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To: xrmusn
I've got a straight key on a thigh clamp that can be use for mobile CW QSOs. I've actually done that while driving. It was during a field day in the late 90s. It looks like this:

/johnny

39 posted on 04/22/2014 5:52:29 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper

I was taught to code by three old guys. The slowest could only key about 30 wpm. The other two could do over 40 and they were about 90. The one worked on the railroad when young.

They thought my 5 to 10 wpm was pathetic.


44 posted on 04/22/2014 5:58:20 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: JRandomFreeper

I was in a line of cars going to a HamFest once.

I started sending CW with the horn and soon everyone was doing it..lol HI HI


49 posted on 04/22/2014 6:02:27 PM PDT by Bobalu (What cannot be programmed cannot be physics)
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To: JRandomFreeper

That is neat....

I used to ‘practice’ code while sitting at stop lights and doing the license plates.....

Wouldn’t take all that long till I was back up to 50+ WPM

I do a little ‘copying’ now and then...kind of rusty but the base is still there.....

I was ‘different’ as I could copy faster than I could send...Well, guess most of us could BUT I admitted it. Had a terrible ‘fist’, the Vibroflex was a life saver for me even today I ‘have to’ use a Ball Mouse as with the slider I start running out of (table) top space.


50 posted on 04/22/2014 6:02:29 PM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98 --"I would agree with you BUT that would make both of us wrong".))
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