Bencher By 1 Review

The rubber feet were loose because of this making the key dance around the table and rock diagonally in use.

Bencher by 1 review. As a long time user of the by 1 bencher paddles think 32 years i ve always wanted to try a higher end key. One of the things i dislike about the by 1 series is their tendency to fly apart under vigorous keying. 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. The bencher by 1 iambic paddle is just one in a series are dual lever iambic paddles.

Bnr by 1 a couple of quick adjustments and it was good to go. I am not a great cw person yet. 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. Self adjusting needle bearings and gold plated solid silver contacts.

I learned cw on a set of borrowed bencher by 1 iambic paddles. It features adjustable contact spacing and tension. 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. 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.

Very smooth built like a tank and heavy. The by 1 was damaged in a recent move so it was time to shop for something a little more modern. I picked this up in huntsville at the hamfest. States on the old ameco straight key and used it for a few late night ragchews it had become.

I got a bencher by 2 and a few years later traded it for a st 1. But for a first paddle you d have to look long and hard to find a better key to start out with. Some ops love them some ops don t. 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.

Works good for us qrs operators a whole lot better then the dual paddle. The heavy steel bases and and non skid feet keep it in place while operating. Having knocked out more than half the u s. The iambic bencher by 1 doesn t have this design problem and a little bit of unflatness doesn t bother it.

And since you ll probably own one someday anyway you might as well buy one right off the bat and save the suspense. Like the vibroplex bug the bencher by 1 is everywhere. The by 1 is a well rounded key. I prefer the st 1 single lever a lot.

Tony offers different oto spacing down to 1 2 which i found to be about perfect. Ultimately i had to give those paddles back to their owner and i ve been paddle less ever since.