[Boatanchors] Elmer

[D C _Mac_ Macdonald]

I don't know when I first heard the "term" but 
it is fairly recent for me.  I know that I never 
HAD one.  I got the idea shortly after the end 
of WW II when I listened on the family RCA 10K 
multiband console radio.  It was probably the 
75m band but I didn't know from squat at the time. 
 
I learned the Morse with a friend who passed his 
license some 10 years after I got mine.  We used 
a set of those old blue and white "telegraph" sets 
with the dots and dashes of the code printed on 
top of the battery compartment.  That's probably 
the absolute method to "learn" the code.  I never 
did get good, but finally passed the 20 in front of 
FCC examiner on first try in 1979.  I took ALL my 
tests, Novice included, at FCC sessions on the way 
up to Extra. 
 
Too much effort involved to get license to even 
consider tossing it all away and quitting! 
 
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* 73 - Mac, K2GKK/5 * 
* (Since 30 Nov 53) * 
* k2gkk at hotmail.com * 
* Oklahoma City, OK * 
* USAF & FAA (Ret.) * 
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