[Elecraft] K8RA P4 Key to K3S?

[Fred Jensen]

It can depend on whether you're right or left-handed Bret, although it 
doesn't always.Right-handers almost always want dots on the thumband 
dashes on the fingers [it's called the "Tyranny of the Majority"].  Some 
left-handers like to reverse that, many do not, I am one, left-handed 
bugs were way outside my price range years ago.  I have a second paddle 
set up on the left of the keyboard, also "right handed" which I tend to 
use the most.

The good news:  You can change the sense of your paddle in the K3s menuso:

Connect the frame of the key to the sleeve of the plug.  Connect one of 
the others to the ring of the connector, and the third to the tip 
connection.  Plug it into paddle jack and go into TX TEST. Try it out.  
If you're right-handed you probably want the dots on the thumb.  If 
they're not, hold MENU to get into CONFIG, use VFO B knob to get to CW 
PADL, and use VFO A to change it.

Both ways with a K-line, no extra charge.

73,

Fred ("Skip") K6DGW
Sparks NV USA
Washoe County DM09dn

On 8/12/2017 4:29 PM, MaverickNH wrote:
> I'm signed up for CW Academy Sept-Oct and picked up a used K8RA P4 Key
> http://www.k8ra.com/product-p/p-4.htm It has three thumbscrew wire
> connectors on top at the back. How do I connect that to my K3S?
>
> Bret/N4SRN
>