[Elecraft] Iambic Keying (WAS: Straight key first?)

[Don Wilhelm]

  OK, I have made a vow to learn to send with my right hand within the 
next year, so my left hand is free to write.  Then I will not have to 
change any of the transmitters to reverse the paddles anymore.

Being a Southpaw can be a good thing!

73,
Don W3FPR

On 6/29/2011 9:26 PM, Carl Clawson wrote:
> Another advantage of iambic keying is that it's easy to send with your
> non-dominant hand, leaving the other hand free to write without juggling the
> pencil. Think about stringed instruments -- CW is music, after all. One of
> my elmers suggested this decades ago and I've been sending left-handed ever
> since. Dunno about single-lever keying as I haven't progressed to that yet.
>
> Only problem is in multi-op situations when you have to remember to swap the
> paddles in the software before turning it over to the next op.
>
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