Subj : Re: Storage
To : Ed Vance
From : Holger Granholm
Date : Wed Jun 25 2014 09:29 am
In a message dated 06-23-14, Ed Vance said to Holger Granholm:
EV> GM Holger ... ._ __ ,
.... .. . -..
EV> Years before my Junior High School friend let me hear WWV on his
EV> S-38 RX I got a 2 piece Telegraph Set.
Hey, I think that the first receiver I owned for ham radio was a S-38
but it was broad as a barn door so it was only an intermediate step
while I built myself a 14 tube double conversion superhet.
BTW, talking about output power I forgot that I still have a Heathkit
HA-24 PA with the HP-24 AC-power supply. It's useless however since the
pair of 872B's are "finito" probably because of overdriving with a Drake
TR-4c.
EV> But I didn't think of typing the 'Sounds' when I used the Underscore
EV> and Period characters on the keyboard to 'send my GRIN message'.
The underscore is a very poor substitute for a dash. Two underscores
join each other so you have to look real close if that is intended as
one or two dashes.
EV> I also remember seeing a Morse Code Chart on a page in my older
EV> brothers Boy Scout book, and probably if I had joined the Scout's I
EV> would had been introduced to hearing the sounds of the Code instead
I've never been a Boy Scout even though I at one time was interested in
the concept and I really don't recall where I got this love for morse
but when I was called in for military duty (while living in Finland) I
had already started in a amateur radio license course so I asked for a
placement in a signal corps battalion and where placed there.
EV> ... if u cn rd ths u 2 cn thnk up shrt clvr tglns
I prefer to send tag lines that anybody can understand, not only us
weird types called hams, hi.
