[CW] question...........

Thu, 20 Jun 2002 02:16:16 +0000

>From: Ronald KA4INM Youvan <[email protected]>
>Reply-To: [email protected]
>To: cw <[email protected]>

>>I'm left-handed, and I decided when I got my first bug to learn to key
>>with a right-handed bug so I wouldn't have to tote my key around with me
>>when I had opportunities to operate in other hams' shacks.

I found it easy the first time I ever tried it, to key left handed with a 
lefthand bug or turning a righthand bug around.  As long as I can form the 
dits with the thumb and dahs with forefinger, it doesn't seem to matter much 
which hand I use.  I could go from left to right in the middle of a sentence 
if I had both lefthand and righthand bugs connected to the transmitter.  I 
believe the body/brain combination makes each hand act like a mirror image 
of the other.

It is much more difficult to get the hang of sending using the forefinger 
for the dits and thumb for the dahs, regardless of which hand is used.  I 
once heard somewhere that the bug is set up the way it is because there ist 
more dexterity in the thumb than the fingers, and you need more precise 
control to make dits than dahs.

Don K4KYV

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