"Rick Nevill" wrote in message
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Hello!

I would like to to make a custom iambic keyer for a person with
quadraplegia. She mainly has use of only her index and ring finger. She
can only flex her thumb and cannot release the thumb pressure at will.

Does anyone know of an iambic keyer kit or inexpensive keyer that I could
dis-assemble to build a keyer with side-by-side rather than opposing
paddles? That way she could use her ring finger for the dashes and her
index finger for the dots (or visa-versa) . She cannot move her arm at
all,
so I will have to make a splint that can hold the keyer and her hand in
the
correct position.

The closest I have found is this site that lists alot of keyers:
http://www.eham.net/reviews/products/16 and the MFJ-561K Minature Iambic
keyer kit.

BTW, she cannot use a straw, so I cannot build her the keyer that was in
QST
last month!

Thanks for any help I can get!

73,
Rick
WD5FRZ

In one issue, I cannot recall which, QST had an article on a sip&puff
"paddle". This used pressure switches and a plastic tube. The user
activated dots and dashes by either gently blowing or "sipping" on the
tube.Here is just one link that Google found:
http://www.makoa.org/jlubin/morsecode.htm

Dale W4OP