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

[Ted Buckley]

At 08:01 PM 4/24/03 -0400, N2EY@aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 4/24/03 1:13:02 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>rondec@easystreet.com writes:
>
> > Long ago there were "left handed" bugs.
>
>
>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

Another good reason for right handed folk to learn how to operate a paddle 
w/left hand is that it frees up the right hand to run the pencil. .
write down what you need to without moving off the paddle.   Learning how 
to run the mouse left handed with a PC frees up the right hand to run the 
10 key pad. . this comes in handy.  Fortunately, the good folk at Elecraft 
have made it easy to switch the sense of the paddle from the menu on the 
K2; I'm working on doing the paddle switch.
73, Ted WA7DFD K2 3202