On Sat, 19 Jul 2014, gareth wrote:

A straight Morse key has a fulcrum away from you, but your wrist
articulates in front of the key, in a mirror image of that of the key.

Therefore, your wrist is constrained to follow an unnatural arc
when keying.

Have there been any mechanical designs published so that the
keying arc is in the same sense as the wrist arc?

(cf. Watts' parallel motion, perhaps?)

I seem to recall paddles that did nothing, ie it was a key that went side
to side, but no automatic sending of dots (like on a bug) or dots and
dashes (like on a keyer). I think there was a period when such things
existed, I don't think it's even considered in more recent times.

Why not just a pushbutton? Then you can just move your finger, no need
for the whole wrist to move. I was going to say keys had to be as they
are because they handled large current in the early days of radio, but the
form of the key relates to the telegraph, and that wasn't high current.

Michael

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Why not just a pushbutton?

You're not a Morse man, then?

On 7/21/2014 5:09 AM, gareth wrote:
"Michael Black" wrote in message
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Why not just a pushbutton?

You're not a Morse man, then?



It's obvious YOU aren't!

Properly adjusted, you should have little or no wrist movement. And
even if you do, the fact your hand and the key move on different
fulcrums is immaterial.

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On 7/21/2014 5:09 AM, gareth wrote:
"Michael Black" wrote in message
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Why not just a pushbutton?
You're not a Morse man, then?

It's obvious YOU aren't!

Properly adjusted, you should have little or no wrist movement. And
even if you do, the fact your hand and the key move on different
fulcrums is immaterial.

From your previous Childish Broadcasting (CB) into these NG,
it was inevitable that you would not have the mental capacity to recognise,
and partake in, a philosophical discussion for the edification of _REAL_
radio amateurs.

On 7/21/2014 9:57 AM, gareth wrote:
"Jerry Stuckle" wrote in message
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On 7/21/2014 5:09 AM, gareth wrote:
"Michael Black" wrote in message
xample.org...
Why not just a pushbutton?
You're not a Morse man, then?

It's obvious YOU aren't!

Properly adjusted, you should have little or no wrist movement. And
even if you do, the fact your hand and the key move on different
fulcrums is immaterial.

From your previous Childish Broadcasting (CB) into these NG,
it was inevitable that you would not have the mental capacity to recognise,
and partake in, a philosophical discussion for the edification of _REAL_
radio amateurs.




ROFLMAO! You're just as stoopid as the newspaper articles show you to
be. No wonder the judge wouldn't let you waste the court's time with
your tripe.

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"Jerry Stuckle" wrote in message
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ROFLMAO! You're just as stoopid as the newspaper articles show you to
be. No wonder the judge wouldn't let you waste the court's time with
your tripe.


Well, as suspected, your interjection into these threads owed more
to your needing attantion in an infantile manner than it did to your
contributing discourse in the manner of an adult.

Shame on you.

High time that you grew up, there, OM.

On 7/21/2014 10:11 AM, gareth wrote:
"Jerry Stuckle" wrote in message
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ROFLMAO! You're just as stoopid as the newspaper articles show you to
be. No wonder the judge wouldn't let you waste the court's time with
your tripe.


Well, as suspected, your interjection into these threads owed more
to your needing attantion in an infantile manner than it did to your
contributing discourse in the manner of an adult.

Shame on you.

High time that you grew up, there, OM.



So says the idiot who got shut up by the judge for his infantile
behavior. And who feels the need to show his stoopidity in so many
threads here.

But then the stoopid never do recognize themselves. Time to go back to
your CB buddies. Because in a battle of intellects, you are defenseless.


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