[CW] Activity - Chicken Fat Operators

[PSmith at vinu.edu]

I was (am)  an old CFO. Most ran a keyboard, some homemade. W9CQ had an old
Remmington typewriter that he modified to send code with. The difference in
those and today's keyboards is that there was no buffer, no automatic
spacing, and the op had to send it all by rhythm.  He was quite comfortable
at 70 to 75 with those handicaps. It is an era gone. I miss the guys. That
is where I learned to actually communicate with CW. We learned to actually
"talk" rather than have a QSO leading to a QSL. We told jokes, learned
about each other's families and had coffee together every day. This, then,
lead to more key operation. Now I love, paddles, keys and keyboards, all
for their purpose.

Some don't like keyboards, I understand. I see a use for both.

If anyone knows of an old hand made typewriter converted to a keyboard,
please yell.

Phil,  AA9ZZ   ( to old CFO'ers,  WA9CNC and KQ9O)

Phillip Smith, CRMC
Broadcast Faculty
Vincennes University

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in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles.
 Do you understand this?  And radio operates exactly the same way: you send

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