[Elecraft] "Standard" paddle settings

[Ralph Parker]

>The "standard" is for the right hand paddle (operated by the finger of the
>right hand) to make dashes while the left hand paddle (operated by the thumb
>of the right hand) makes the dits.
>...the conventional operation of semi-automatic mechanical keys ("bugs")...

Indeed, there is only one correct way - the dots are always on the thumb,
regardless of which hand is used. I assume this applies also to left-handed
bugs, although I've never seen one. (Otherwise, how would you know that it
was left-handed?)

I teach Morse at my local club, and have had to stop students who got
started the 'wrong' way, and get them to start all over again (after they'd
mastered a straight key, of course). Only one student wanted to use a bug,
this because he had learned on one many years ago, and wanted to preserve
the 'romance'.

I've been relying on the timing of an electronic keyer for so long (built a
W9TO back in the 60s) that my sending with a bug is too embarrassing to be
heard.

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