Micromatic Keyer

[john]

At 02:46 PM 7/1/01 -0500, John Farrington wrote:
>Those SA-5010 capacitive paddles were so frustrating to use that if you've
>tried and liked them, you must be about the only one. They will not work
>reliably in the presence of RF, nor at hardly any other time because of
>the ever varying capacitance between the operator's fingers and the paddles
>due to humidity, sweat, movement, touch pressure, dirt on the surface of
>the paddles and fingers, etc.

You got that right! :-)

After an hour of messing with this, I now have some very clean hands, some
very clean paddles, and the things still only work reliably when
my fingers are wet. Increasing the sensitivity only sets off a string
of dots.and or dashes.... maddening!

I think I'll wire a set of paddles to it and call it a day. Works fine
otherwise, and thanks for the hints on the bottom adjustments.

Thanks very much one and all!

John

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John Brewer - WB5OAU/4
AMI #24
Clayton NC
johnmb at mindspring.com
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