[Elecraft] (OT) Paddles and fingers...

Thu Apr 24 20:06:02 2003

In a message dated 4/24/03 1:13:02 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
[email protected] writes:

> Long ago there were "left handed" bugs. 

There still are! As I recall, Vibroplex will make any of their current bugs 
as "lefty's" - but for a price.

Some folks took their bugs apart, turned the base and lever arm assembly 
over, and reassembled the thing. Result is a lefthanded bug with the 
nameplate underneath. 

>   eing a bit of a lefty, I chose to
>  learn right-handed rather than to be limited to the left-handed keys I 
could
>  find. 
>  
>  In reality I'm ambidextrous, but from what true "lefties" tell me, it's not
>  really hard to learn either way.

Cool!

I've got the opposite problem: Being righthanded and having used a bug since 
1974, I want to learn how to use paddles without ruining my bug fist. So I'm 
trying to learn to keyer-send lefthanded.

73 de Jim, N2EY