[Elecraft] paddle key training

[george fritkin]

My computer does wonderful CW.
George, W6GF 


--- On Sun, 3/27/11, Jessie Oberreuter <joberreu-elecraft at moselle.com> wrote:

From: Jessie Oberreuter <joberreu-elecraft at moselle.com>
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] paddle key training
To: "Kate Hutton" <katehutton at gmail.com>
Cc: 
Date: Sunday, March 27, 2011, 10:15 AM


      I tought myself to eat left-handed so I could write with my right at 
the same time.  A Chinese friend and I once went out for a writing session 
over Vietnamese soup.  When I picked up my pen in the right, and my 
chopsticks in the left and proceeded to eat and write at the same time, 
she said, "That's not fair!".
      "What?  You can do it too!", I replied, and then stifled a smirk as I 
watched a person who had been using chopsticks her entire life struggle to 
make them work in her left hand :).

Paul,

      I know what you mean about the way the handedness of a task "feels" 
in the brain.  My hands tend to "compete" for tasks, and how it "feels" 
tends to shift accordingly.


On Sat, 26 Mar 2011, Kate Hutton wrote:

> I'm a rightie with my dits on the left.
>
> I also don't head copy very well.
>
> The first few times I had the opportunity to be NCS on the slow-speed net, I
> could not figure out how to write* everything *down, keep the traffic list,
> etc. & also put the pen down to send & then pick it back up again, etc.  A
> comedy to watch, I'm sure.
>
> Figured out I would have to 1) learn to head copy, 2) learn to write left
> handed, or 3) learn to key left handed.
>
> Finally chose to work hard on option 1, but I did practice enough with
> option 3 to convince myself that it could be done, provided that I reverse
> the keyer.  In other words, dits always on the thumb.  Option 2 is pretty
> hopeless.
>
> 73 Kate K6HTN
>
> On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 7:53 AM, Ron D'Eau Claire <ron at cobi.biz> wrote:
>
>> I thought practicing timing was important when progressing from a straight
>> key to a bug, but to use a keyer one only has to have timing good enough
>> not
>> to confuse the keyer logic.
>>
>> The keyer does all the critical work of inserting the proper spaces between
>> code elements including, for most keyers, even enforcing the correct word
>> spacing.
>>
>> Personally I loved Iambic keying. I never considered whether it was really
>> faster or easier (I'm a rag chewer and so seldom run over 25 wpm). What I
>> like about it was the smooth flow of motion to create CW. I quit using it
>> because it destroyed my fist on a real bug. Muscle memory had me
>> fruitlessly
>> squeezing the bug paddles all the time, wondering what was wrong, Hi!
>>
>> Ron AC7AC
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> Are you proficient with a straight key? You need to get your timing
>> perfect before you "progress" to a paddle. You may not like a squeeze
>> paddle. See for e.g. /Iambic Keying - Debunking the Myth/ by Marshall G
>> Emm, N1FN (Freely available at http://www.mtechnologies.com/. For lots
>> of other resources including CW mentors see the Straight Key Century
>> Club website at http://www.skccgroup.com/.
>>
>> GL & 73, Charles, N2SO
>>
>>
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