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K5END
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Rating: 5/5
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Jul 10, 2009 10:16
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Glad I got it.
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Time owned: 0 to 3 months
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I would never have made this investment had I not seen these paddles at Dayton and tried one for myself out of curiosity. "How good can they be?" I wondered. Everyone had told me my other twin paddle was all that I would ever need.
But then I tried one. It was the most smooth and effortless action one would want.
That sold me right there. Once again, "you get what you pay for."
This goes down as one of my wisest investments in Amateur Radio equipment.
Whatever it is they do to make these things work so well--magnetic return and so on--they are doing it right.
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W2PA
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Rating: 5/5
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May 3, 2009 15:36
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Solid, beautiful
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Time owned: 0 to 3 months
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I had the pleasure of using a new Begali Contour (and also a Pearl) keyer paddle in a CW contest this past weekend, and compared it to the others I’ve used over the years. The two share a very similar design for the working mechanism and so they feel very similar (see my review of the Pearl for details (http://www.eham.net/reviews/review/80421).
The main visual and physical difference in the Contour is its rectangular base, compared with the Pearl’s round one. The main housing for the pivots is also a slightly different shape, to make it visually consistent with the base (in typical attention to aesthetic detail). Although I didn’t weigh it, I’m guessing that the Contour is slightly heavier due to the shape of the base making it a bit larger.
Even though the feel was nearly identical to the Pearl (precise), the Contour makes a distinctly different clicking sound. This is not a value statement – it was just different. Maybe it’s like the difference in musical instruments from the same maker. The one other difference I noticed was that the ends of the finger pieces are just slightly closer to the base than on the Pearl, but further away than on the Graciella (this distance is something I’m particularly sensitive to – it may not matter depending on your keying style).
73, Chris, W2PA
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