[Elecraft] CW Setup

[EricJ]

K6DGW's post answers most of your questions, but I'll add a couple more 
points. You have to use a stereo plug for any key plugged into an 
Elecraft rig. Even straight keys and bugs with only two wires.

Also, as Fred points out, you can pretty much do whatever you want and 
left handers often just stick with setting up paddles as righthanders 
to. I think it's a mistake because of the symmetry in the brain. Right 
hand bugs are set up with dits on the thumb and dahs on the forefinger. 
Righthanders do the same with paddles for electronic keyers. Sticking to 
this convention makes it easier to use someone elses rig or demos at ham 
conventions with ease as they are usually set up for righthanders.

Lefthanders can do what they want, of course, and we often do because 
it's our nature. But lefties should also follow the convention that the 
thumb is for dits and the forefinger for dahs. Remarkably, a lefthander 
who does this can sit down with a righthanded bug or paddle/keyer and 
send with very little practice. That isn't just because lefthanders are 
more skilled. It's that the brain easily makes the adjustment--even a 
righthanders brain can handle that.

Until recently, I've always used a bug or paddle righthanded and a 
straight key lefthanded because a straight key demands fine motor skills 
the others don't. As I get older, I've noticed my fine motor skills 
slightly degrading. So I built a lefthanded bug to see if that would 
help. It did. My left hand is more precise than my right, always has 
been. So after 40 years of using righthanded bugs and keyers, I switched 
to my lefthand. With an evening of practice, my speed and ability was as 
good as my right hand. I think my LH fist is even a little better than 
my RH fist ever was, but memory is the second thing to go.

Eric KE6US




On 6/26/2016 6:00 PM, Bill Ellis via Elecraft wrote:
> Hi ll,
> Trying to set up a single lever paddle for my K3. The more I read the more confused, for some reason, it gets. Can someone assist with this hook up, do  I use a stereo plug, and how do I set up the menu ?
>
> Thanks/73's,
> Bill, WB9CAC
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