[Elecraft] Tuning Knob for K1 (K2)

[Kevin Rock]

I use either hand to tune.  I became ambitextrous through the intervention 
of a floor, a bale of hay, and the force of gravity.  Broke my right wrist 
into a number of pieces which took an awful long time to heal.  Thus I had 
to learn to do everything with my sinister side.  Then a bit later in life 
I crunched (mooshed is what the doctor said after viewing the Xray photo) 
a few fingers on my right hand.

The former accident stopped my CW career in its tracks early on and has 
left me mostly incapable of using a straight key.  The second incident has 
given me some interestingly shaped fingers and a bit of numbness in them.  
But since paddles came along during the period between incident one and 
incident two I was able to start CW again.  The up side to all this 
banging and crunching is I am mostly ambidextrous.  I lost the ability to 
write with my left hand but some folks think I lost that ability with 
either hand so there was not much loss ;)

I don't tune with the outside of the knob at all.  I use either my left 
thumb or my right forefinger inside the raised outer edge of the knob.  
Thus the face of my tuning knob is highly polished.  If they ever pry this 
rig out of my cold, dead fingers the recipient will have to replace the 
knob with an Elecraft's replacement.  Hopefully the company will outlast 
us all.
    Kevin.  KD5ONS


On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 12:57:57 -0600, NR5A <nr5a at rap.midco.net> wrote:

> Interesting, I'm not a lefties, I'm a righties, but thats how I always do
> the tuning knob on my K2.
>
> Jerry - NR5A - South Dakota
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dan Barker" <dbarker at visioncomm.net>
> To: "Elecraft" <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 6:49 AM
> Subject: FW: [Elecraft] Tuning Knob for K1 (K2)
>
>
>> Maybe they are left handed.
>>
>> Dan / WG4S / K2 #2456
>>
>> PS: Lefties operate with their right hand on the radio, all four fingers
> on
>> the radio TOP. The tuning knob is rotated by placing the thumb on its
> face.
>> The knob as supplied is ideal for this purpose. I'm assuming all this
> "Knob
>> Flap" is from hams using their fingers to tune whereas the "correct<g>"
> (tm)
>> method is of course, the right thumb.


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