[TenTec] CW Mobile

[k8mp at aol.com]

Some of you knew K9JQ. Jim and I talked about operating /M cw many times.
"Back in the day", Jim, a lefty, used a bug in the car and placed it on the arm-rest of the driver's door.
"Where there's a will, there's a way."
 Joe, K8MP

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-----Original Message-----
From: Al Gulseth <wb5jnc at centurytel.net>
To: tentec <tentec at contesting.com>
Cc: Paul Christensen <w9ac at arrl.net>
Sent: Tue, Jun 7, 2016 12:18 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] CW Mobile


On Tue June 7 2016 10:46:32 am Paul Christensen wrote:

> During college, my mobile operation consisted of a Yaesu FT-101EE on the
> passenger seat and a Hustler mobile whip on the rear bumper of a Chevy
> Monte Carlo.  The Monte Carlo had bucket seats with a carpeted transmission
> riser in between.  That allowed taking a keyer like a Heath HD-1410,
> turning it upside down, placed in between the seats and pointing the
> paddles toward the front of the vehicle.  For right-handed ops, the palm is
> placed on the keyer cabinet with fingers toughing the paddles.....
>
> For southpaw CW ops, well...

1. Learn to send with the other hand (some folks have done that.)

OR

2. Move to someplace like the UK where they put the steering wheel on the 
wrong side of the car.

(Flame suit on HI HI!!!)

73, Al
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