K1XM keyed in (with both hands, no doubt):
>That's 25 years sending with the right hand and 25 sending with the
>left. So you started contesting eleven years before you were born?
>
> Paul, K1XM
>> From: "Jim Neiger" <n6tj@sbcglobal.net>
>> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] carpal tunnel
>>
>> my experience how, after sending CW with my right hand (single lever
>> paddle)
>> for 25 years, I lost all coordination in my right thumb, and have been
>> sending left hand (squeeze) for the last 25 years.
Paul -
Although it doesn't show, Jim's older than 39. His advanced age has even
been immortalized in song...
http://www.wrtc2002.org/songs/64.htm (to the tune of the Beatles' "When I'm
Sixty-four", of course)
73,
Doug K1DG
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