It’s amazing how typing with your left hand affects sending with
your right hand, but it sure does with me. I had to practice a lot
to log with left hand and send with right hand in contests. And
it works pretty well. I’m talking about with a real keyboard, don’t
know if I could do it with an i-pad or any touch screen device.
Those devices don’t always react when you touch something
on the screen, at least in my experience.
73
John, K6YK
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Hi John, yes it is certainly something that needs to be practiced. I think it’s like juggling, you need to make a lot of mistakes and have lots of practice before your brain can manage the dual tasks (there are some who say that males can barely manage one task, but I won’t reveal who those people are), then finally it apparently becomes easier. Today I was stabbing at the screen with left hand while sending with the right, I didn’t make too many mistakes on the sending but I typed some impossible callsigns. This is on a small 7” tablet running the VK Port-a-log app, fortunately my most frequent prefixes are on some quick keys so I mostly just have to enter suffixes. I need a quick callsign key that is preset to ZL1BYZ and others for VK2IO and VK3PF. Have to find a way to do that… maybe talk with Peter about it.
Had some nice signals from NM and AZ on 17m today around 2340.
73 Andrew VK1DA/VK2UH
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