Iambic Keying Demo

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Ham4CW

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Came across this demonstration of Iambic keying and thought it might be of interest to those who are curious about such things!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdzjvIk_aY0

I guess it also shows what can be achieved with a lot of practice (see the sending example towards the end of the video). I think I just about managed the dit dit at the end, maybe you can do better! >:D

73, Mark...
 
Nice demo in the first half of that video.
But at the end the guy is showing off at 40 wpm, which is pretty boring and demonstrates nothing useful. These QRQ merchants can't help themselves - they all have to do it.

He does have some very nice double paddles though - I wish I could get my gaps as tight as that!
 
Trouble is with being the fastest op' in the world, there will be no on for you to talk too!

I'm almost certain that a good number of these 'fast' operators rely on decoders for receive. I've seen a number of videos where in the background there will be one of the latest rigs with Morse to text running.

Listening to that video towards the end I don't think he had even altered the 'weight' of the keyer output, which as far as I am aware QRQ op's generally do, because otherwise the dits and dahs sound pretty much the same. Unless he left it just to get more speed out of it for the sake of the video. But then again, an automated decoder wouldn't suffer such issues, it would still decode it so long as the dit-dah lengths were in proportion.

I can never understand why when I listen around on HF some op' will be calling CQ like the clappers for an hour or more, then when someone does eventually answer them all they do is send their RST and then carry on calling CQ for another hour! Where's the fun in that? :-*

73, Mark...
 
It's much like the high speed CW Contest ops, calling "test" continually at 40+WPM. Sounds clever, and I suppose in a contest you can get away with it if it's busy but I'll never feel like I want to go back to a call like that.
It's funny, in the latest Key Notes, I read them referred to as "test-icles" which tickled me.
 
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