A Blackberry or Handspring Treo or similar has a full qwerty
mini-keyboard designed to be run with both thumbs. (Come to think of it,
a PSK31 rig in the same general size and format as one of these would be
incredibly cool, and arguably feasible (factory built and SMD, of course).
A running joke among those of us "entrepreneurs" who work for venture
capital-backed companies is how fast your VC board members can type on
these things. I don't think they could seriously compete with top QRQ
CW ops, but for sure they exceed the 30 wpm barrier. (Arguably, they
perform better when typing during some interpersonal interaction to
which they are supposed to be paying attention--e.g. a company
presentation or a Board mtg...)
See y'all in Dayton.
73
Eric
N0HHS
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Wayne Burdick wrote:
Morse has three other ergonomic advantages you didn't mention:
1. You can send Morse with one hand (even medium-fast text messaging
requires two hands)
Text messaging with my phone requires cradling the phone in one hand and
pressing the digits with the thumb of that hand. What does the other hand
need to do?
Maybe you have a really big cell phone? :-)
de - N3WZ (Jim)
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