[CW] Activity - Chicken Fat Operators

[Tony Martin W4FOA]

There are still a few of us around.
73
Tony, W4FOA
CFO 550



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From: <PSmith at vinu.edu>
To: "CW Reflector" <cw at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 10:03 AM
Subject: Re: [CW] Activity - Chicken Fat Operators


>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
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> tail
> in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles.
> Do you understand this?  And radio operates exactly the same way: you send
>
> signals here,  they receive them there.
> The only difference is that there is no cat."
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