What a great thread..!! But this last message from Keith brings up a
question. I am right handed and have been using paddles for over 20 years
with my right thumb making dahs and my first finger making dits. Have I been
using the paddles backwards all these years..?? Is there a standard..?? I
know I'm too old a dog to learn a new trick (or too old to want to try..hi)
Whats the vote from the group.
de Tim K0FL
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From: K & H Darwin <darwin@together.net>
To: TenTec List <tentec@contesting.com>
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Friday, September 24, 1999 9:54 PM
Subject: [TenTec] Southpaw CW (was Re: Copying CW in your head)
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>From: JimN0OCT@aol.com
>To: pklein@2alpha.net; tentec@contesting.com
>Subject: Re: [TenTec] Copying CW in your head
To: <tentec@contesting.com>
>Date: Thursday, September 23, 1999 11:22 AM
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>Once you learn to copy in your head, then teach yourself to send with the
>hand you don't write with--things go *much* faster!
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>When I was a novice, I learned to send right handed with a straight key
>(I'm right handed). When I moved to a keyer, I taught myself left handed
>instead of right handed so I could hold a pencil in one hand and send CW
>with the other. I don't reverse the paddles, I just slide them over to the
>left side of the OP desk. So to me, the thumb is for dah's and the finger
>is for dits.
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>I'm sure glad I did it that way!
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>73 y'all
>
>Keith Darwin
>KD1E
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