[Fists] Quiz Answer !!!

Thu, 23 Oct 2003 21:35:06 -0400

Yup, was definitely mulling that lefty business over.. great to have that
ability, a switch-hitter. My dad was 100% ambidextrous but unfortunately I
didn't inherit that and am farsighted and he was nearsighted, but he Was
my Dad.

Now, having won, do three of us get a memento? Nawwww. It was fun figuring
it out. I had that same experience with my SK Navy uncle's Vibroplex - he
made a plastic paddle and it was a delight. I broke the thing - it had
cracks in it from age - and I wound up with a second flat paddle on the
right side. The spacing is a bit closer than the fiber paddles on the Les
Logan I used for so many years, but it still feels better than the knob. I
know this - I doubt I will ever be able to key as well as David does..

I read (Pierpont's well chosen term for head-copying) as high as 60 wpm
when I sit and listen long enough, but never sent over 35-40 wpm, and
prefer in older age to hang around at about 27 wpm from the speed so many
NTS traffic handlers seem to groove into, esp. those who write messages
with a pen instead of using a Mill. And that is another whole subject.
Nothing compares with a Real Mill. Nothing. Lotsa fun.

73 -- Fred NY2V

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Cheryl W. Ring
To: Fred Adsit ; [email protected]
Cc: [email protected] ; [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 9:15 PM
Subject: Re: [Fists] Quiz Answer !!!

CONGRATULATIONS - WE HAVE ANOTHER WINNER.

CONGRATULATIONS TO FRED ADSIT.

Fred, you're absolutely correct.  I got things reversed - but then got
them
correct - no wonders everyones is confoozed.

Here's what happened - what I wrote at the beginning was a "cut and paste"
quote from Greg Moore - and he is a lefty!

I used GW's comments - he has them reversed - he being a lefty, and I just
cut and pasted it - and then added my own comments - so you are correct.
The thumb piece is the paddle.  Lots of guys who are Southpaw didn't spend
the extra money to buy a "lefty" bug - and now a days they don't even make

them.

BUT to make it even more confusing - when I type the answer on my own, I
get
it right!  I mean correct, I mean I dind't confooze my left paw with my
right mitt.

HERE!!!

On the Vibroplex the finger piece is like a hand key knob - and like a
door
knob, the thumb piece looks just like a little paddle that you could
paddle
your canoe with.

SEE???   --   I got that part right!

I should have added - the finger piece looks like the button on a pair of
Levi's Blue Jeans!

Thanks Fred!

Your email obviously was enroute (see below) while the answer was being
announced but due to delay in Yahgoo wasn't posted yet, so we will give
you
credit.

73

Cheryl and David Ring - KB0RQN and N1EA

  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Fred Adsit
  To: Cheryl W. Ring
  Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 8:23 PM
  Subject: Re: [Fists] Quiz Answer !!!

  AHA. I just got on FISTS which I have been deleting. Excuse me, but the
paddle is on the left and is the thumb piece. The finger is used to make
dits and is on the right and that is the buttton.  Are you telling me that
a
Vibroplex is backwards. Read your answer below carefully. It is backwards.
I
sent a guess direct and was correct. Why would a button be the paddle and
the paddle be a button. See the red below. By golly my wild guess was
correct, in any event. I didn't send it to FISTS tho. Have been ignoring
FISTS for several days and am baaaackkkk. :-)  Talk about confusion!!

  Fred Adsit NY2V
    ----- Original Message -----
    From: Cheryl W. Ring
    To: [email protected]
    Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 6:56 PM
    Subject: [Fists] Quiz Answer !!!

    Two correct answers:  From Greg Moore and Tom French!

    The thumb piece was called either a "button" - which is the word that
both
    of them came up with - or a knob - which I believe is the more common.

    The finger piece is called a "paddle" - which is the one I thought no
one
    would get!

    On the Vibroplex the finger piece is like a hand key knob - and like a
door
    knob, the thumb piece looks just like a little paddle that you could
paddle
    your canoe with.

    73

    DR

    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    McElroy, who was a telegrapher, referred to the "thumb
    paddle" and the "dash button."

    Tom

    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    OK, the "thumb piece" was the "button" and the "finger piece" was the
REALLY???
    "paddle".

    Now, back in the '60s when  my Lightning Bug slid off the table at
sea,
    (NO, I wasn't transmitting at the time) and busted the finger piece, I
    removed both, and made up a large paddle out of a piece of discarded
    plexiglas. That makeshift paddle was SO comfortable, I kept it with
the
    key all these years, used it happily,  and only removed it (actually
    Vibroplex did, and returned it to me) when I had the bug completely
    restored last year.
    73
    GW