I use either hand to tune. I became ambitextrous through the intervention
of a floor, a bale of hay, and the force of gravity. Broke my right wrist
into a number of pieces which took an awful long time to heal. Thus I had
to learn to do everything with my sinister side. Then a bit later in life
I crunched (mooshed is what the doctor said after viewing the Xray photo)
a few fingers on my right hand.
The former accident stopped my CW career in its tracks early on and has
left me mostly incapable of using a straight key. The second incident has
given me some interestingly shaped fingers and a bit of numbness in them.
But since paddles came along during the period between incident one and
incident two I was able to start CW again. The up side to all this
banging and crunching is I am mostly ambidextrous. I lost the ability to
write with my left hand but some folks think I lost that ability with
either hand so there was not much loss ;)
I don't tune with the outside of the knob at all. I use either my left
thumb or my right forefinger inside the raised outer edge of the knob.
Thus the face of my tuning knob is highly polished. If they ever pry this
rig out of my cold, dead fingers the recipient will have to replace the
knob with an Elecraft's replacement. Hopefully the company will outlast
us all.
Kevin. KD5ONS
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 12:57:57 -0600, NR5A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Interesting, I'm not a lefties, I'm a righties, but thats how I always do
the tuning knob on my K2.
Jerry - NR5A - South Dakota
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Barker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Elecraft" <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 6:49 AM
Subject: FW: [Elecraft] Tuning Knob for K1 (K2)
Maybe they are left handed.
Dan / WG4S / K2 #2456
PS: Lefties operate with their right hand on the radio, all four fingers
on
the radio TOP. The tuning knob is rotated by placing the thumb on its
face.
The knob as supplied is ideal for this purpose. I'm assuming all this
"Knob
Flap" is from hams using their fingers to tune whereas the "correct<g>"
(tm)
method is of course, the right thumb.
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