[CQ-Contest] Jim's carpal tunnel

Doug Grant k1dg at ix.netcom.com
Sat Jan 28 10:03:57 EST 2006


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 at 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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