[TenTec] Fw: The Left-handed K3

[Ed Malmgren]

What about people who send with their foot, do they switch with different 
rigs?  Ed  K7UC
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Zond" <k3miy at csonline.net>
To: "Discussion of Ten-Tec Equipment" <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 1:55 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] The Left-handed K3


> Hi
>
> i remember one FD where I was stuck with lefthand
> paddles. I flipped the key upside down and mounted it on two
> blocks. No problem.
>
> ron
> K3MIY
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: tentec-bounces at contesting.com
> [mailto:tentec-bounces at contesting.com]On Behalf Of Bill Tippett
> Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 3:09 PM
> To: tentec at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TenTec] The Left-handed K3
>
>
>
>
> WA3MKB:
>
> >I'd like to hear from any hams who learned to
> send CW left-handed because their rigs were right-handed
>
>         In days prior to computer-logging days it was
> common for a right-hander to send with his left and
> write with his right.  This is actually easier to do
> than it sounds if you swap the dot and dash from
> the norm for right-hand usage.  If your keyer or rig
> doesn't allow swapping by menu and you don't have
> time to change the mechanical connections, turn the
> paddle backwards and put your left hand over the
> mechanism so the dot and dash positions are reversed.
> This is a little awkward but it's an easy way to give
> it a try without changing anything but the paddle
> orientation.
>
>                                 73,  Bill  W4ZV
>
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