Subj : Amateur Radio Newsline (D)
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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Jun 30 2017 05:08 am
KICKER: REPLACING A CW FIST WITH A WRIST
NEIL: Finally, with Field Day behind us, we visit with one club in South
Carolina that had a gem of an idea for Field Day: jewelry, ham-radio
style. Amateur Radio Newsline's Jim Damron, N8TMW, tells us more.
JIM's REPORT: When you're a ham looking to get the message out in
flawless CW, would could be better than having a good fist? How about...
.....a good wrist? While tens of thousands of hams throughout North
America took to their straight keys and their mics recently for ARRL
Field Day, the Anderson Radio Club in South Carolina added another
communications mode into the mix: the Morse code bracelet. Out there
amid the radios and the generators near the Anderson Civic Center,
was a table beneath a tent, offering an assortment of colored beads,
string and clasps. Visitors were encouraged to learn a little Code first,
and then spell their names out with beads representing dots, dashes, and
spaces between. From there, they made the bracelets. Best of all, no
amateur license necessary.
Of course, there turned out to be a bit of hidden message behind all that
wearable CW. It said: "Become a licensed ham, and all this can be yours
next time." So, perhaps next year, some of the guests will indeed be
back - and this time, they'll be wearing a headset instead.
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Jim Damron, N8TMW.
(ANDERSON INDEPENDENT MAIL, MARGIE SPANGENBERG, KK4AGN)
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