[CW] Simple Question
Chuck Adkins
Chuck Adkins" <[email protected]
Tue, 18 Nov 2003 14:52:28 -0500
I am one of those weirdo's who wire thier key backwards...
i have a Bencher by-1 dits on my first finger and dahs on
my thumb... the other way is terrible!
73 de acp8k err... k8cpa
:-P
-chuck
----- Original Message -----
From: "David J. Ring, Jr." <[email protected]>
To: "Fernando Quinones" <[email protected]>;
<[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 2:47 PM
Subject: Re: [CW] Simple Question
> If you send with a right handed keyer, buy a right handed
bug. Right handed
> means that the thumb sends dots with your right hand.
Left handed means
> that the thumb sends dots with your left hand.
>
> I know many left handed people who send backwards with the
bug - and then
> they wire their paddles also backwards.
>
> But it seems you send "right" - like a baseball batter
hits left or right -
> so you should choose a right handed bug. You use the
right hand to send,
> and send dots with your thumb of your right hand.
>
> 73
>
> DR
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Fernando Quinones" <[email protected]>
> To: "David J. Ring, Jr." <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 2:04 PM
> Subject: Re: [CW] Simple Question
>
>
> Hello David and thanks for the reply.
>
> I was looking for Santa to buy one. Hi. but will keep an
eye on ebay.
>
> The keyer I have is wired right, meaning I use the thumb
for dots and
> index finger for dashes. When I first started using it, I
felt it to be
> arbitrary and
> so felt comfortable the way it now is setup. Recently, I
got
> the urge to try a bug and so the question.
>
> I was thinking using one with my right hand. I have now
discovered from
> another reply that the knob is the dot and the flat one is
the dash..
> Just now I reverse my keyer and can't send that way, so
I'll probably look
> for a Left handed one and use it with the right hand. That
way I don't
> need to relearn the poor skill I've develop.
>
>
> I did notice that Vibroplex's catalog mentions the
Original in a Left
> Hand version.
> I'll email them with a query.
>
> tnx and have a nice day.
>
>
> David J. Ring, Jr. wrote:
>
> >The Vibroplex Company USED to make left handed bugs, but
they no longer do.
> >
> >You might find a left handed Vibroplex on eBay, with the
large knob on the
> >right, and the flat paddle on the left (and the pendulum
mechanism on the
> >right side) on www.ebay.com but be careful and watch the
pictures as often
> >the seller doesn't know that the bug is a left handed
version.
> >
> >Keyer paddle levers - like the iambic - can be wired left
or right handed,
> >but a bug must be specially made for left handed use.
> >
> >73
> >
> >David Ring
> >N1EA
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Fernando Quinones" <[email protected]>
> >To: <[email protected]>
> >Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 1:15 PM
> >Subject: [CW] Simple Question
> >
> >
> >Hello to all..
> >I would like to ask a this simple question:
> >
> >In the Vibroplex bug, the round knob is the dot and the
oval is the dash?
> >
> >I'm contemplating in trying the blue racer but the iambic
I'm using
> >I have the dot set on the thumb piece and the dash on the
index finger
> >piece.
> >
> >I'm left handed you see, and use the keyer with my right
hand and write
> >with the left.
> >Occasionally I use the straight key with the left but
can't with the
> >right. Yep,
> >I'm screwed up, the result of them trying to make me
bright ..err write
> >with the right..
> >
> >Sorry for such a silly question but could not discern it
from the
> >Vibroplex .pdf
> >
> >
> >--
> >
> >73's Fernando NF6Q/NNN�JYM
> >San Jose,CA. 95123
> >Elecraft K2 #233�;KBT2;KAT2;KNB2
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> >
> >
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> --
>
> 73's Fernando NF6Q/NNN�JYM
> San Jose,CA. 95123
> Elecraft K2 #233�;KBT2;KAT2;KNB2
> CCA #�1187 FISTS #8649 FP #622
> <http://pages.sbcglobal.net/nf6q>
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