[CQ-Contest] Let's talk SO2R dual keyboards

[Alan Higbie]

Both Ken and Dick mention that they have remapped some keys.

I am using 2 wireless mini keyboards which lack up-down arrows - so I don’t
have ability to change CW speed with just one key. I need to re-map that
function.

But, QUESTION: What other functions are you remapping other keys to do?

Thanks,

~ Alan K0AV

On Sat, Aug 14, 2021 at 4:32 PM <wc1m73 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I use a pair of Apple keyboards, one wired and one wireless (the ones
> without a numeric keypad). They're a little under 11 inches wide and about
> 4.5 inches deep. They work fine with Windows 10. Some keys are remapped in
> the logger and others using a Windows app.
>
> 73, Dick WC1M
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken K6MR <k6mr at outlook.com>
> Sent: Friday, August 13, 2021 3:13 PM
> To: Mike Smith VE9AA <ve9aa at nbnet.nb.ca>; cq-contest at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [CQ-Contest] Let's talk SO2R dual keyboards
>
> Yep, mini keyboards.  Smallest wireless (2.4GHz) ones I could find that
> still had the keys I needed.  Look for TechNet wireless keyboards on
> Amazon.
>
> My logger has a keyboard re-mapping function, but in N1MM you can use
> AutoHotKey and move things around.  I don't really use the mouse so I set
> it
> on top of the right hand radio or off to the side out of the way.  AHK lets
> you map keyboard presses into mouse movements so I have a few that got rid
> of the few functions in my logger that required the mouse.  Keep hands on
> keyboard(s).
>
> Ken K6MR
>
> From: Mike Smith VE9AA<mailto:ve9aa at nbnet.nb.ca>
> Sent: Friday, August 13, 2021 10:03
> To: cq-contest at contesting.com<mailto:cq-contest at contesting.com>
> Subject: [CQ-Contest] Let's talk SO2R dual keyboards
>
> I recently went to 2 Keyboard SO2R (in part tnx to N2IC programming skills
> in N1MMLogger) and have modified my desk to be a little lower hacking
> nearly
> 3" off the height and so now it's at about 29.5" tall, but am still having
> some discomfort to the twisting motion flipping back and forth between
> keyboards, especially when doing 2BSIQ (poorly,hi)
>
>
>
> I am using 2 full size Logitech keyboards about 17-18" wide at slight
> angles
> to one another (Flying Vee formation) with a very small mouse right at my
> stomach in the small triangle of real estate the 2 keyboards don't occupy.
> I can't seem to learn to type left keyboard with left hand; right keyboard;
> right hand.  At least not fast enough to keep up anyways.
>
>
>
> Those of you doing 2 Keyboard SO2R..are you using Mini keyboards or at
> least
> smaller than stock sizes?
>
>
>
> My new ones, if I go that route, will have to be 2.4GHz as the computer
> does
> not have Bluetooth and I have some RF into my USB bus, but eliminated it
> all
> by going to wireless KB's.
>
>
>
> I'd hate to give up the # pad for SN contests (WPX, WAE, etc) and I need
> page/up page/down keys for speed changes in N1MMLogger+
>
>
>
> What say you?
>
>
>
> CU in WAE
>
>
>
> Tnx
>
>
>
> Mike VE9AA
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Mike, Coreen & Corey
>
> Keswick Ridge, NB
>
>
>
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