[CW] Ambidextrous Manipulation

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Ray, I tend to use my right hand, however, there is good reason to believe that I may have been born left handed.  I also tend to learn on my own before I see others doing a thing, so when the computers first grew mice, I started using the mouse with my left hand leaving my right free on the keyboard.  No one ever mentioned for several years after that how it was customary to use the right hand on the mouse.  I still prefer to use the left for the mouse.  It was that use of the mouse that started developing my left hand co-ordination, and probably also not only made me somewhat ambidextrous, but likely developed access to both brain halves, which function somewhat differently.   While I generally do use the key and bug with my right hand, I am not uncomfortable using my left. With an actual bug, not the electronic paddles, there is a bit of difficulty similar to that of changing for writing.  The paddles can be switched for dit and dot, but the bug does not switch that way so you have to learn it twice, once for the right hand and separately for the left (or vice versa).  Switching the dit and dot direction on a paddle makes it all easier, just as writing backwards (right to left instead of left to right) makes it easier.  So if you take up, say Arabic, writing it with the other hand is possibly something to consider .  I heartily encourage others to use both hands interchangeably for whatever they try to do.
Bill Isakson
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-----Original Message-----
From: vr2uw <vr2uw at netvigator.com>
To: cw <cw at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sat, Nov 10, 2012 12:03 am
Subject: [CW] Ambidextrous Manipulation


Any member in this forum is capable to operate keys / paddles / bugs with both 

hands?  VR2UW would like to share pertinent experience for the betterment of 

ambidextrous manipulation.



73's de Ray, VR2UW

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