Bencher By 1 Review

The iambic bencher by 1 doesn t have this design problem and a little bit of unflatness doesn t bother it.

Bencher by 1 review.

My bencher by 1 paddles have about a 3 4 oto spacing on the paddles and i have to consciously hold my hand open a bit wider than it naturally wants to be to keep from accidentally touching a paddle. The bencher by 1 iambic paddle is just one in a series are dual lever iambic paddles. Very smooth built like a tank and heavy. A few yrs after the trade i saw in qst a mod to make a dual paddle into a single with a simple piece of plastic.

I am not a great cw person yet. Self adjusting needle bearings and gold plated solid silver contacts. Works good for us qrs operators a whole lot better then the dual paddle. I learned cw on a set of borrowed bencher by 1 iambic paddles.

As a long time user of the by 1 bencher paddles think 32 years i ve always wanted to try a higher end key. But for a first paddle you d have to look long and hard to find a better key to start out with. Like the vibroplex bug the bencher by 1 is everywhere. I bought one of these to replace a bencher by 1 i bought in 1980.

Bnr by 1 a couple of quick adjustments and it was good to go. The by 1 is a well rounded key. States on the old ameco straight key and used it for a few late night ragchews it had become. Brought it home hooked it up and realized just how much i liked it.

I picked this up in huntsville at the hamfest. Ultimately i had to give those paddles back to their owner and i ve been paddle less ever since. One of the things i dislike about the by 1 series is their tendency to fly apart under vigorous keying. It s nice and crisp i like mine a lot i m sorry to take so long to describe a problem that s caused by a few thousands of an inch of mis alignment.

Some ops love them some ops don t. The by 1 was damaged in a recent move so it was time to shop for something a little more modern. I do recommend that you purchase the universal hookup kit it makes things so easy to get the by 1 connected to your radio and up and running. Like my previous bencher by 1 paddle some of the holes weren t drilled fully and the threads not cut all the way down making assembly screws jam in place before they were fully tight.

Having knocked out more than half the u s. So far i m very happy with the performance but i ve yet to key a set of begali paddles but the bencher is also less expensive. I got a bencher by 2 and a few years later traded it for a st 1. I prefer the st 1 single lever a lot.

It features adjustable contact spacing and tension. Tony offers different oto spacing down to 1 2 which i found to be about perfect.