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I'll check a couple of usual suspects. I just sent my only one (pristine KY-116/U) to a good friend out west to facilitate his learning the code.
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And I'm the happy recipient of that J37 key with a practice oscillator which came as a separate freebie , with word that it had been handed down some through the ages. I got the oscillator's variable resistor tuned to where it sounds near the same tone as the CDs I've been not hitting as hard as I should.
Two questions: 1) Is there any PMCS on the key as far as lube? Wear points might be on the hubs of the key's axis shaft, was wondering if some LSA applied by toothpick might be a good thing. 2) I am learning CW via CDs. Author of the course is real big on not translating, just writing in cursive with a smooth pen, what is heard. I was wondering if chiming along, repeating what's heard during the breaks using the leg key as the CDs are heard, is of any benefit for the near term. I realize that chiming along only helps out the learning of the fist, and does not help with the learning of CW characters. Is there any drawbacks to putting in another vector approach in learning CW?