[Elecraft] The K line. Is it the wrong way round?

[Randy Farmer]

What ARRL said. Old traffic handlers and paper logging contesters like 
me seem to do it that way.

73...
Randy, W8FN

On 06/23/2013 18:20, John Oppenheimer wrote:
> It may be that the Elecraft placement is based on decades old CW
> convention/tradition. 1966 ARRL Handbook, Page 555, "Controls"
>
> "The majority of c.w. operators tune with the left hand, preferring to
> leave the right hand free for coping messages and handling the key, and
> so the receiver should be mounted where the knob can be reached by the
> left hand."
>
> Followed with:
>
> "Phone operators aren't tied down this way, and tune the communications
> receiver with the hand that is more convenient."
>
> Same comments found in the 1962 and 1970 Handbooks.
>
> John KN5L