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Short note to viewers wanting to buy the notepad option: Space pen wil retract if the metal clip is pressed, not the button. It also fooled me at first.

haha, I still keep my MFJ cw eletronic keyer for many years.... de Miami, fl

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Great video and was just what I was looking for to get some ideas on making my own paddles for cw. I find the best part of amateur radio is building your own gear, but I am an oddball like that.

Hi, Jock! Nice activation! Are you new to YT or have you been on for a while? This is the first time I catch you on YT. Best and 73, Marc (N1QGM)

Thanks for the video. Well presented. Just ordered the Pearl. Good job unboxing, but almost 8 minutes is way too long. Would have been nice to see you hook it up to your radio and perhaps make some adjustments and test it out.

This is great! I live vicariously though your trip!!!

I have to tell you a story regarding this sort of thing. In the 70’s there were no cellphones. Very few of us even had push button phones. Those were for rich people. At the time, most folks still had rotary phones. To make a long distance call, you dialed zero. The operator came on the line and asked what area code you wanted to try and connect to. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn’t. That was acceptable technology. The operators were always women with sweet voices and they really wanted to help. They usually succeeded and it depended how you talked to them. I was a kid in Chicago and really wanted to talk to my dad in California. I usually got through. You had to be very polite and respectful and almost beg her to connect you. So she would. Operators had power. Say something that was rude and they’d hang up on you. You didn’t demand a connection, you politely asked for one. It was up to her. Nothing you could do if she just decided not to connect you or a storm had knocked down the wires and she just couldn’t. Everyone understood. Then CB radios came out and got popular with us kids with home base stations and mobile car stations. Originally for truckers across the country, they were always on channel 19. We stayed off 19 out of respect, and we had 39 other channels to choose from. But you could finally talk to strangers on AM radio. It was a blast! Of course as an electronics nut, I got everything I needed for my set from Radio Shack. 4 watts was the legal limit and even for that you needed an FCC license. And no “potty talk”. You’d lose your license for the F-word in a heartbeat. So everyone was nice and polite. Everyone had a “handle”. Strangely my screen name on TH-cam is Woodstock. That’s what my handle was when I was fourteen. But I was thinking about Spoopy’s bird friend back then and now I think of it as the rock concert in New York, in a field where everyone was doing acid and smoking pot. Making babies in public. I didn’t know that then and didn’t care but on certain nights with the right cloud cover, you could catch the “skip” from guys in Europe and other places far and wide. I needed more wattage and an illegal linear. 9 Watts. A Moonraker beam antenna on a rotor. Ran wires all over the roof and down the mast to my bedroom. No such thing as a remote for anything, everything is hard wired and you risked your life to make it happen when you skipped school and did all this while mom was at work. She didn’t even notice my Moonraker on the roof for months. I was styling. In the 70’s, your parents didn’t really care what you did. Ride bikes for miles, jump ramps over garbage cans, just be home when the streetlights came on. That was the only rule I really remember. The rest were out the window. So we were self-sufficient. Even encouraged to do crazy stuff. Kids these days don’t bleed like we did. They don’t even know the pride of signing your friend’s cast. Late at night I’m on my CB with my linear shooting skip. Talking to someone in Belgium. So cool. Then we had a real pain in the ass guy who also had a linear in the neighborhood and what he’d do since nobody liked him, is key up his power mic and lock it. Drowning out the whole channel. I couldn’t even talk to my next door neighbor. Just trying to bleed through but he was an ass and I don’t know how many watts his linear was but we had a plan. And this was a common way to deal with assholes on CB. In the car now with a mobile unit we’d just drive around and watch the RF meter get stronger and stronger. Follow it until it pegs and there’s the Moonraker on his roof. It’s a simple matter of hopping his fence and making sure he doesn’t have dogs first, then pinning his coax. You stick a pin through the outer sheath of his coax so that the ground touches the inner conductor. At the wattage he is running, the next time he keys up his set shorts out and burns. He was off the air a couple weeks until he got a new set. Then he was more respectful. “Okay, someone pinned my coax and burned out my set. That’s rude but I’ve been kinda rude too. So I’ll not stomp on you guys anymore. Let’s just get along. Okay? And we did. He was fine after that. Actually kind of a friend now. Still had the most powerful setup but he was humbled. Man I miss those days so much.

Neat idea. Those might be usable for mobile also. Maybe put some double-face foam tape in a convenient position, or Velcro hook-and-loop. In WWII, the #19 set had a key with a web belt to go on your thigh. Straight key - might jump around a bit if moving overland. Thanks for posting.

Chinese website sells these for 25 cents shipped 😂😂😅

Didn't know that.

No idea what this was or why the algorithm recommended it. Knew it was a switch for something though. Finding out it’s for sending Morse code really made it cool. I had the alphabet and numbers memorized when I was a kid in Boy Scouts back in the late 60’s. Bummer is, I couldn’t get any of my friends interested in learning it so I could only talk to myself. (I still do that) But it’s neat that ham radio operators are still using Morse code. Very cool. Thanks.

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Cool!

Frankly, i never thought how those pads worked. How they can do cw so "easily". Now i continue wondering that.

I think your video its so amazing!... I saw a pair of wires on a little piece of wood!, what is that 😊 So cool your video

That's so cool!! Thank you so much for sharing!!😁you rock! 🤘

My dad was into ham radios when I was a kid. When you did the code for CQ, a lot of memories flooded back.

Fantastic. I made my 1st one in 1970 😊

Great!

Thank you for this video! I'm still awaiting the arrival of my KH1 - how exciting! I am also in NH ~ W1RCY

73 is BEST WISHES 88 is HUGS & KISSES 10-100 is BATHROOM and many more codes. I didn't memorize them all, but mainly the most prevalent. Thank you for your DIY CODE KEY. It's very innovative!

Scheisse gelabere. Ich weiss nicht was eine Papieklammer ist. Ein Schalter oder eine Morsetaste für Steinzeitbewohner. Hauptsache ein Video für Gehirnamputierte drehen und Geld abzocken.

A 5 minute video explaining what is blatantly obvious with the still imqge .

Great job thanks for sharing your story

This reminds me of a telegraph system. Didn’t they use Morse Code too? Anyway really interesting.

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Or you Could have done a 30 second short.

Люди стали забывать старика Морзе😑

J'ai crû que c'était un piège à souris 😂

Что за хрень и для чего? Много непонятной воды

Brilliant! I've been using a 'bulldog' paddle with binder clips I got somewhere and wanted to recreate it but this is absolutely great! Thanks for sharing. de WD8BDN/6 73's

Были сомнения , но когда услышал , - ямб...73!!!

Nice!!!73!!!

100 %. I grew up in a house that had a "ham shack" in the basement and it took me a few minutes to clue in. Ham = amateur, specifically amateur radio operator in this context. CW = continuous wave, a non-modulated transmission scheme commonly used for Morse code, in which the carrier frequency is turned on and off in pulses. Paddle keyers are an alternative to the classic single switch "telegraph style" input device for sending the short / long (dot / dash) carrier bursts that encode characters. BTW I took a crack at learning Morse myself but at the time I was more interested in playing keyboards in a rock band to pick up girls. (It worked!) Now that this is decades in the rear-view, I might just consider having another go at it.

Very nice (McGiver) Build Project thinking outside of the Box.👍👍😎

Some Amped up geek stuff here for sure

Can someone explain what it’s plugged into on the other end? And how is someone else hearing it? It’s cool and I’m curious about this.

First what the hell are cw paddles for or do?

Very cool, both simple and effective!

I've been an EE for 35+ years and I became a ham about 7 years ago. I haven't learned Morse yet, but I definitely want to. Naturally, I've had my eye on various commercially-manufactured CW keys and paddles. So seeing this little homemade set of paddles just blows my mind! Brilliant! Ingenious! Bravo! 73 de W3TEK!

I bought a paddle but only the dits side seems to work. I can't get dahs.

That's great job man! Many people think internet and digital communcation are a holly bibble. Actually they aren't. Especial when you have not enough power supply such as marine working,sailing,nature diaster or in war. Morse Code can be a simple but useful expression by many kind of way such as light, sounds and marking etc....Morse Code most common use example is 3 short 3 long 3 short. Less is more!

Great idea for a workshop build for scouts. Thanks for sharing!

It’s killing me to know what he plugged it into and how it works.

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Connect 220240 volt CV

The average TH-cam viewer has no idea that a "CW Paddle" is a ham radio item, used for sending Morse code.

With the wave of kids wanting to learn Morse code, this will prove to be invaluable. Next week: Used Motor Oil. To more affordably create smoke signals.

Got this video displayed in my recommendations, was curious - and actually not as surprised as some other random viewers. Well, I'm an electrical engineer who had a neighbor in his youth who was an amateur radio operator. This was decades ago, but some things just stick … 👍