I've done a couple of read's through that article. While it has many
good points, it also has some glaring errors which make it somewhat
uncredible to me.
E.g. when listing the letters that benefit from squeeze technique, the
list is limited to C, F, K, L, Y, Q and R. When listing the letters
KD1E:
I've done a couple of read's through that article. While it has many
good points, it also has some glaring errors which make it somewhat
uncredible to me.
Some good points Keith. If someone wanted to
analyze this to death they would weight the analysis by
frequency of occurrence
I wrote:
I believe the supposed efficiency
advantage of iambic keying is a myth. Someone
published an analysis of this within the past year
or two but I cannot find it at the moment.
I found the analysis here:
http://www.morsex.com/pubs/iambicmyth.pdf
Summary:
I used Iambic keying because I found it smooth and easy and it does involve
fewer paddle movements for many things. Sometimes it cuts the hand motions
by half!
For example, sending CQ involves only eight finger movements in Iambic mode
compared to sixteen movements in conventional keyer mode.
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