[TenTec] Southpaw CW (was Re: Copying CW in your head)

[Robert]

Hahahaha!

Peter,

  I thought I was alone in this setup.. My mouse on the left drives 
everyone else crazy! The up-side to that is that noone wants to use my 
machine because they have to move everything around...




At 01:58 AM 9/25/99 , Peter A. Klein wrote:

>Keith Darwin, KD1E says:
>
> >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.
>
>Interesting.  I am left-handed.  But I'm the kind of left-hander who uses a
>baseball bat or tennis racket like a right-hander.  I also do not "hook" my
>hand when writing.  The left brain/right brain theories have something to
>say about this.  Anyway, I always found it natural to copy with my left and
>send with my right.
>
>In 1990, I had a carpal-tunnel type of injury to my right hand.  During the
>time I had rest my right hand, I learned to use the keyer with my left
>hand.  I did reverse the paddles, so the thumb was always for dits.  I
>consider it an inside-outside thing rather than a left-right thing.
>
>I'm the same way with computer mice.  I'm what I call
>ambi-mousey-dexterous.  On my own machines, I have the mouse set up
>left-handed.  When I help other people, I use their right-handed setup.
>Again, I think of it as an inside-outside thing, rather than a left-right
>thing.  What gets me is how all Microsoft documents refer to "left click"
>and "right click," so I have learned that when supporting other people, the
>index finger is always "left," even if it's "right."
>
>(And don't anyone get started on the political implications of this!!!  :-)
>
>Of course this drives other people nuts when they try to use my machine.
>Once a compulsive corporate type actually tried to force me to use a
>right-handed mouse on the grounds that he "couldn't support non-standard
>setups."
>
>73 from KD7MW,
>
>--- Peter
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