[Elecraft] K3 Right vs Left Hand

[Guy Olinger K2AV]

I haven't quite learned how to send CW from a paddle left-handed, but
in the last three or four years at SAS (all day at a computer) before
I retired I developed a sore right wrist that would not go away, and
even if rested would immediately re-sore up if I returned to a right
handed mouse.

Mimmicking another's experience I started using a good trackball
(Kensington) with my left hand and have never returned, though I can
use anyone's right handed mouse if I don't do it much. I reverse the
buttons so that left thumb click does the same thing as right thumb
click.  I now find myself wanting my main radio on the left, and using
my left hand to tune.  The setup which serves contests well, left to
right, is trackball, radio tuniing knob over left edge of keyboard,
keyboard, and paddle.  Right hand does switching antennas, yada, yada.

This may or may not serve anyone else, as when I was young, I had to
be forced to write and throw righthanded.  So I don't know if I'm
really a "bent" left-hander or not.  I know I can't ever again use my
right hand consistently for computer mouse. The automatic sending in a
contest by the logger keeps my right hand from being seriously worked
by the paddle. The typing is hard enough.

73, Guy

On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Fred Jensen <k6dgw at foothill.net> wrote:
> Phil Hystad wrote:
>> Excellent point.  I am right handed but almost always use my left
>> hand for fiddling the knobs and buttons on my K3 (or, any other rig
>> with one exception).  My right hand is either next to my Begali
>> paddle or it is holding a pencil/pen.
>
> Several years ago, as an outgrowth of a very long thread, I ran a little
> survey here about "handedness" and hams.  It was non-scientific [people
> answered the survey voluntarily so the sample was self-selected].  Aside
> from the fact that the percentage of left-handed hams was quite a bit
> higher than the average for males [something I've noticed at radio club
> meetings too], the results suggested that hams have all manner of
> arrangements for their radio gear on the desk, whether they paddle left
> or right, how they set their paddle up, and the like that doesn't
> correlate much with whether they consider themselves north or southpaws.
>
> I'm a leftie, but you'd probably tell me my station is set up right-handed.
>
> 73,
>
> Fred K6DGW
> - Northern California Contest Club
> - CU in the 2010 Cal QSO Party 2-3 Oct 2010
> - www.cqp.org
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