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Re: [TenTec] The Left-handed K3

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Subject: Re: [TenTec] The Left-handed K3
From: Stan Barr <g0clv@dial.pipex.com>
Reply-to: Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment <tentec@contesting.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:04:07 +0100
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At 8:24 am -0500 13/6/2008, Wayne Whitman wrote:
>That's interesting.  As a right-hander, I have always used my left hand
>to operate the rig.
>Probably because I started on cw as a novice and always send with my
>right hand.
>I wonder if other right handed cw ops only use their left hand for the
>rig?

Yep, me.

Some professional rigs were designed with left-handed operation in mind.
Both my Racal receivers, for example - 1960s RA17 and 1980s RA1792 -
although IIRC the US version of the RA1792, the RA6792, reverted to
a right-handed layout.
-- 
Stan Barr   G0CLV    GQRP 3369    g0clv@dial.pipex.com

"Never leave well enough alone" - Raymond Loewy
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