In the closing moments of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Name Desire, Blanche DuBois utters her most memorable line, “Whoever you are, I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.” Amateur radio operators are sometimes like that.
I recently came into possession of a HamKey HK-5A keyer (see right). HamKey has been out of business for many years, so I had to depend on the kindness of strangers to find any kind of documentation for the unit.
Fortunately, Google and the hams out there came through. I Googled “HamKey HK-5A” and found a thread on an eHam forum. In the thread, N5RDN offered to make a copy of his manual for KW4MM. I emailed Rob, N5RDN, and a PDF of the manual appeared in my inbox this morning.
Thanks, Rob! I now offer the HK-5A-manual here for anyone who needs it.
Paul says
Awesome! I’ve just bought an HK5A to use with my Yaesu FTDX3000 which should now allow me to separate my send and receive speeds, the thing is the FTDX3000 incorporates a CW decoder which relies upon the wpm being approximately set for it to work, if the sender’s speed is fast then on adjusting the wpm for the decode function to work also means that you have to send at the same speed which is often not possible in my case (or any less experienced/skilled operator). Now I have the manual thanks to your post here it will definitely make things much easier so a big thank you from me and I can now look forward to sending out intelligible CW.
73,
Paul from the UK
call sign: 2E0IPW