Micromatic Keyer

[Dave Edwards]

I have two uMatic keyers.
The capacitive paddles work flawlessly, and reliably.
No problem at all. I like them a lot.
...Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: john <johnmb at MINDSPRING.COM>
To: <HEATH at LISTSERV.TEMPE.GOV>
Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 5:57 PM
Subject: Re: Micromatic Keyer


> 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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