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Old December 22nd 15, 12:50 AM posted to uk.radio.amateur,rec.radio.amateur.homebrew
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Default Morse Key Contacts?

On Mon, 21 Dec 2015 23:33:17 -0000, "gareth"
wrote:

For those who make their own Morse Keys, what do you use for the contacts,
for
I have found the phosphor bronze pillar for the dot contact on my ersatz
Vibroplex
to be very noisy and scratchy?

I'm fairly sure that I asked this question before, but it has been a habit
of never put off till
tomorrow what you can put off till the day after.

I chose phosphor bronze because in the days of making one's own electronic
organs, phosphor bronze was suggested as a suitable keying matreial for the
keyboards.


Never built a morse key but in the telecomms industry, Palladium was
the way to go.