Cheap Keyer Paddle
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Seems a perfect time to revive ham tradition and make one.
Do you have any tools, soldering iron? Hacksaw blade comes to mind, maybe a couple of quarters for pads, screws for contacts? I know you can Google: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sps6gsqwzws I love the paper clamp idea! https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=RtEYI4aF7j4&app=desktop WL ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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On 2020-09-19 10:27:-0400, Wilson Lamb wrote:
> >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sps6gsqwzws > >I love the paper clamp idea! https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=RtEYI4aF7j4&app=desktop Great, clever ideas! Thanks! ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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Here is another idea. Search Te-Ne-Ke CW key at youtube.com Mike, AC5P
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PZantLJRwc On Monday, September 21, 2020, 10:46:55 AM CDT, Rich NE1EE <[hidden email]> wrote: On 2020-09-19 10:27:-0400, Wilson Lamb wrote: > >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sps6gsqwzws > >I love the paper clamp idea! https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=RtEYI4aF7j4&app=desktop Great, clever ideas! Thanks! ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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I own two Te-Ne-Kes. I use them in the field, mostly, though I have one of
them screwed to a wooden base, weighted with stick-on iron tire balance weights. They work like a charm. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 73, Gwen, NG3P On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 12:01 PM Mike Maloney <[hidden email]> wrote: > Here is another idea. Search Te-Ne-Ke CW key at youtube.com Mike, AC5P > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PZantLJRwc > > > > On Monday, September 21, 2020, 10:46:55 AM CDT, Rich NE1EE < > [hidden email]> wrote: > > On 2020-09-19 10:27:-0400, Wilson Lamb wrote: > > > >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sps6gsqwzws > > > >I love the paper clamp idea! > https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=RtEYI4aF7j4&app=desktop > > Great, clever ideas! Thanks! > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[hidden email] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [hidden email] > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[hidden email] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [hidden email] Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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In reply to this post by Mike Maloney
Also lookup Arizona ScQRPion iambic paddle. May be a kit available. Used to be $27 for kit.
Sent from my iPhone ...nr4c. bill > On Sep 21, 2020, at 12:02 PM, Mike Maloney <[hidden email]> wrote: > > Here is another idea. Search Te-Ne-Ke CW key at youtube.com Mike, AC5P > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PZantLJRwc > > > > On Monday, September 21, 2020, 10:46:55 AM CDT, Rich NE1EE <[hidden email]> wrote: > >> On 2020-09-19 10:27:-0400, Wilson Lamb wrote: >> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sps6gsqwzws >> >> I love the paper clamp idea! https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=RtEYI4aF7j4&app=desktop > > Great, clever ideas! Thanks! > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[hidden email] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [hidden email] > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[hidden email] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [hidden email] Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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In reply to this post by Wilson Lamb
I have made 2 keys. The simple one used a SPDT spring switch
which might have come from some old telephone equipment. I added a finger pad cut from an old credit card and bolted it to the top of the Altoids box which holds the Rockmite. It does seem to work. The more complex one used the arm bearing from an old PC hard disk with some brass metal parts and a wooden base. It uses repelling magnets instead of springs and some short pieces of silver wire, crossed to each other, as the contact points. All the corrosion products of silver are conductive so these contacts need less cleaning. The big surprise during development was discovering that the bearing was a near perfect insulator. That's why there is a bit of wire going from the paddle arm to ground. <https://www.dropbox.com/s/n253mllnr0vqkie/IMG%20-%202%20Paddle%20and%20Rockmite.jpg?dl=0> After all, much of the fun in ham radio is in building stuff. 73 Bill AE6JV On 9/19/20 at 10:27 AM, [hidden email] (Wilson Lamb) wrote: >Seems a perfect time to revive ham tradition and make one. >Do you have any tools, soldering iron? >Hacksaw blade comes to mind, maybe a couple of quarters for pads, screws for contacts? >I know you can Google: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sps6gsqwzws ---------------------------------------------------- Bill Frantz | Art is how we decorate space, 408-348-7900 | music is how we decorate time. www.pwpconsult.com | -Jean-Michel Basquiat ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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In reply to this post by Wilson Lamb
A sleeper of a paddle is the Whiterook MK-44 from electronicsusa.com.
I hesitate to call it a cheap paddle, as that tends to refer to an inferior product. It is a robust, affordable, lightweight paddle that will continue to work even after you throw it at a wall. For a few pennies, you can add a velcro leg strap to it for field use. Whiterook also offers the TiCK keyer to this same paddle, called the MK-64. I have been running both the paddle and the paddle/keyer for nearly twenty years and they have proven to be a joy to use. I was drawn to the MK-64 paddle/keyer for use in the monthly Spartan Sprint activity for its extremely low weight and low current. I still have the same coin cell in it that I installed nearly twenty years ago. They offer other products, single lever paddles, straight keys, combos. They will certainly not break the bank. 72, Howard Kraus, K2UD ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[hidden email] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [hidden email] |
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