Subj : Re: Morse Code
To   : Richard Brumbaugh
From : Tom Walker
Date : Mon Sep 11 2000 01:58 am

RB> How about taking my message with a grain of salt?  Keyboard and
RB> computer use is more like TTY than CW.  In the 40's we had a blind
RB> ham, W5LDM, could tell some light from dark.  I put a 100ma lamp in
RB> series with his 807 plate voltage instead of a meter so he could tune
RB> up. I know; some people have keyers that have a CQ and their calls
RB> in it, etc, so that they can just sit back and let the keyer do all
RB> the work. If you like that, fine. I'd rather use a real key as long
RB> as I'm able to do so.

And I salute you. My Dad, now a silent Key, was that way. He learned Code
when the joined the Marine Corps in 1927 after figuring looking at a Mules
Tail all day wasn't going to be his Future.  . Particiipated in ther First
Invasion of Hati in their "Signal Corps". After  discharge he got a job with
the "Light House" service transmitting Weather to  Cross country Planes in CW.
When I was born he was working a station in the  Middle of a Missouri Farm
Field. Loved CW.
Saddly I didn't inherit any of those traits. I flunked the Code test for the
First time in 1949 and numerious times since. It just dosen't click in my
Brain.  .


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