Rob Lundahl wrote:
Any recommendations for a low cost Iambic cw key?

Do you really mean an iambic keyer, or do you mean a high speed electronic keyer. In my view, using iambic keyers is now becoming a skill that one only learns for the challenge of learning it. If you want a skill that could be useful in an emergency, using a straight key is better, as it is much easier to improvise a directly keyed transmitter. If you want fast and cheap sending, using a PC keyboard or PDA folding keyboard and a microcontroller provides a much cheaper solution, as it is basically using commodity parts, whereas iambic keyers are low volume products for a premium market.

When they were first developed, the only cost effective implementation method was discrete or SSI electronics, but now microcontrollers capable of working directly from a keyboard are only a few dollards and keyboards are also very cheap.


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