[CW] CW re: 3rd finger..]

[George Maurer]

Scott,
One - touch thumb to little finger - 1 binary
Two - touch thumb to ring finger - 10 binary
Three - touch thumb to little and ring fingers - 11 binary
Four - touch thumb to middle finger - 100 binary
Five - touch thumb to little and middle fingers - 101 binary
Six - touch thumb to ring and middle fingers - 110 binary
Seven - touch thumb to little, ring and middle fingers - 111 binary
Eight - touch thumb to index finger - 1000 binary
Continue pattern for nine through fourteen - 1001 through 1110 binary
Fifteen - touch thumb to little, ring, middle and index fingers - 1111 binary
Sixteen - thumb is 10000, but don't forget that later! 
Seventeen - touch thumb to little finger - 10001 binary 
And so on, for as many "thumbs" as you want. 
Or use both hands to get to 255 decimal, 1111 1111 binary. 
Whew! I hope you really wanted to know how I do that.

With practice you would be able to do this without thinking 
about it, and, by keeping your thumb and fingers in contact, 
you can check, or continue, your count later. 

I used this system when I needed to do head counts, while I moved 
through several different areas, and where I often had to stop for 
several minutes at a time to exchange information with co-workers. 
It worked fine for me, others preferred to "remember" or carry pen 
and note book. Of course, you have one hand dedicated to the count, 
not a secure system, if you need both hands during an emergency. 

I can think of no practical use for this in Ham Radio. Any ideas?
73,
George k6ite



On 20 Aug 2004 at 16:32, N8VCL wrote:

> George Maurer wrote:
> 
> >Using the thumb to mark my count on the four fingers, until I arrive 
> >at 15, then naming the thumb 16, is the method of my one handed binary count. 
> >  
> >
> How do you do that?
> Scott