[CW] Fwd: CW miscellany

[Ed Tanton]

I thought this was interesting enough it ought to be published here as well.

>Date:   Mon, 06 Jan 2003 19:37:57 -0500
>
>1.) Over New Years' weekend we had a family film fest, and watched
>"Vertical Limit." Seems a mountain-climbing sister and party trying to
>ascend K-2 gets trapped in an ice crevase, their vhf gear unable to get
>much of a signal out. She keys the PTT, and her bother and other
>climbers down at base camp hear systematic clicks on the monitoring
>radio. "That's Morse code," exclaims the brother, "Our Dad taught it to
>us when we were kids." End result---rescue! The kids got a free lecture
>on how Dad will be happy to teach them anytime---"Yeah, right Dad."
>
>2.) Listening to XM radio while running hither and yon today (contact me
>off-list if you want to know more about XM) the dj on my favorite jazz
>channel talks about the "60's" channel and how every M-F afternoon they
>have "CQ USA" and play an hour of song requests from the 60's. And you
>know, they didn't even explain what "CQ" means!!
>
>FWIW
>
>73
>Ken KG4FGC

73 Ed Tanton N4XY <n4xy@earthlink.net>

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