[CW] Simple Question

Tue, 18 Nov 2003 15:21:38 -0600

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuck Adkins" <[email protected]>
To: "David J. Ring, Jr." <[email protected]>; "Fernando Quinones"
<[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 1:52 PM
Subject: Re: [CW] Simple Question


> 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
> > >CCA #�1187 FISTS #8649 FP #622
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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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