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Re: [CQ-Contest] Sliding Footswitches

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Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Sliding Footswitches
From: Pete Smith N4ZR <pete.n4zr@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2022 23:06:34 -0500
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This may sound a little off the wall, but I've heard of people using a strip of velcro or other adhesive to strap the footswitch to their shoe.  A little inconvenient when you have to go, though

73, Pete N4ZR
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On 11/9/2022 7:22 PM, Mike Smith VE9AA wrote:
Hi Scott,

We probably worked, as I/we worked on all 6 bands from the next Island over.
(thanks!)

I am a "footswitch guy" when I operate SSB. That habit goes back decades
when I was a dispatcher for a spell and we had a footswitch in the radio
room and that was it ! (I prefer CW, but that's a separate topic)

I brought a small footswitch with me (to ZF2AA)  and it was slip sliding
around on the nice tile floor, so I zip-tied the f/sw cable to 2 big coaxes
that ran under the table.  When I was done CQWW SSB, I cut the zip tie as I
am sure the stn owner would not want it there.

At home, I have all my footswitches velcro'd down to a big plywood board
that sits on top of a vy low wooden box.(none of it moves)

73 de Mike VE9AA (ZF2AA in CQWW SSB)

I operated CQWW SSB at a QTH with tile floors in the operating room. As
a result, the footswitch kept sliding around and frequently required a
pause in my run to reposition it. I am sure others out there have faced
this problem. What solutions have you come up with?

Thanks. Scott/K7ZO
Mike, Coreen & Corey
Keswick Ridge, NB



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