How to operate a straight key 

Your error rate decreased because you practiced as would be for any method.

Mee Khing Lim ok?

What’re you trying to say/mean?

@@Jabeanboy it reminded me of my days as a radio operator working in the navy and later on I was transferred to the wireless communication school as an instructor teaching tactical communication

Mee Khing Lim ohhhh ok sorry

You can only use the lazy arm method if you have a low-profile key, which most outside the USA are not.

In the video how the key is keyed and is totally wrong, one places their arm on the table with the wrist doing to the work, not the arm. Doing as in the video one will develop pain in the arm after long sending periods.

@@n9eerptr most people believe the opposite. Forearm and fingertips, no rapid flexing of the wrist as it's not built for it and you'll develop an injury.

@@PaulTaylor1 No most do not believe the opposite. Professionals do it with arm on the table. And the master for learning and sending the code, William G Pierpont, N0HFF (SK) who wrote The Art & Skill of Radio-Telegraphy and taught the military how to learn and send code for years teaches a totally different method. Also in the video the code being sent is lousy, timing is way off. It is also slow, try sending at 20wpm for 10 minutes with this method. And one adjust the key for ones good feel, not with paper and a weight. Different speeds require different adjustments.

@@n9eerptr I guess that you are probably American. Most operators elsewhere use the wrist and whole arm.

@@n9eerptr And at Portishead Radio, in its day the largest marine radio station in the world, all its operators used the floating arm method, as do most Europeans and Asians.

Doesn't it seem unlikely that someone who makes the nicest keys in the world would have a poor technique?

Google Japanese Wabun Morse Code. de JG1***

That's the US technique. No much used elsewhere.

I also wonder it.

+Dave Kloet The program has a name Win CW, but it's in Japanese. I have this program.

Not really. There are better ways and worse ways, just as in golf.

yes for sure , it is very improper way, i learned cw on r/o shipsboard school, ant that not professional manipolation

You keep repeating this myth.

@@RicktheRecorder This myth as you say is supported by William G Pierpont, the writer of "The Art & Skill of Radio-Telegraphy". He was well known for teaching the sending and receiving of CW and was long time advisor to the military. Alai dor about every type of key used for CW, bug or electronic, a side to side stroke with arm and hand on the table is used and for good reason. Take it from someone who had to send CW for hours at a time. But to each their own, main thing is to get the timing for sending correct.

@@n9eerptr i've dealt with Mr Pierpont in other comments I have made on this video, which no doubt you can find.

Sorry, nonsense. Three quarters of the world's professional operators use this style.

All european keys have hight knob. The technique of this OM is perfect but in the italian navy they were used to put the elbow on the table. But the technique of moving the wrist is better prevent pain in the wrist because you actually use the forearm to transmit. There's no force applied by the wrist that naturally follow the forearm. All of European professional cw operator worked for a lot of hour on ship using this technique. Search for I4CQO.

@@outdoorbeginners2068 Yes many that have taught sending with straight key do say rest arm on the table. The way it is done in the video one will get pain in the arm after long periods of time. And what about using a bug or a electronic keyer, does one hold their arm off the table, heck no. As was written in "The Art& Skill of Radio Telegraphy" by William Pierpont who gave instruction to the US Navy on learning to receive and send the code saying "The key should be located far enough back from the edge of the operating table, about 18 inches, that the elbow is just off the edge of the table. The operator's arm rests lightly on the table with the wrist off the table" The wrist, not the fingers or the whole arm, does the work as the key goes down and up. Keep the wrist off the table." I when learning and using the code as a Novice and sending for longer periods rest my arm on the table for having off the table did develop pain and had much less control of the key.

@@n9eerptr One just loves the self-confidence of Americans. Just because one William Pierpont taught a particular method suitable for a specific low-profile design of key, doesn't mean its more right or better than other methods. "The way it is done in the video one will get pain in the arm after long periods of time." is obviously nonsense if three-quarters of the world's professional operators use that method. It plainly doesn't cause injury.

@@outdoorbeginners2068 I think you hit it, most European keys are made with high knob, where most US keys like Vibroplex and old keys like the famous J38 have the forward shaft coming down and knob very low. So how one sends probably depends on where the knob is. But I do see having low and arm on the table makes it more confrontable. Try just holding your arm out in front of you for 5 minutes like the sending in the video vs resting on a table. One would not normally write on paper with arm high, same with sending. Just makes sense to me. But I use a electronic keyer. Use to be good with straight key, used ole $2.95 key from ARRL as Novice and took my 20 wpm Extra in front of FCC with I think they gave me a J38, passed with no issues. But after getting off CW for 20 years when returned was so bad had to use electronic keyer. Still have couple J38s, but too lazy to relearn it, hi.