[CW] ?"Morse Therapy"

[Ron Zond]

Hi

In Thomas Raddall's book "The Nymph and the Lamp" Isabel Jardine puts it
succinctly," When you put on the phones it was as if your inner self stepped
out of the bored and weary flesh and left it sitting in the chair in that
barren room. For a space you were part of another world, the real, the
actual living world of men and ships and ports, in which Marina was nothing
but a sandbar and a trio of call letters in the signal books. Whistling,
growling, squealing, moaning, here were the voices of men transmuted through
their finger tips, "  (Thomas Raddall, "The Nymph and the Lamp, 1940).

Ron
K3MIY

-----Original Message-----
From: cw-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:cw-bounces at mailman.qth.net]On
Behalf Of David Ring
Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 2:29 PM
To: CW Reflector
Subject: Re: [CW] ?"Morse Therapy"


I think the author, Dr. Gary Bold, ZL1AN who is a professor of physics
at University of Auckland and who writes (and has for many years) a
bi-monthly column in the NZART  "Break In" magazine, is that the WORDS
themselves just suddenly appear inside the head.  Verbally the words
were never spoken with accents, oddities and verbal pecularities, the
words themselves are clear.

I've noticed this myself, but I've also noticed the effect that was
noted by many in the early days of WT (Wireless Telegraphy - as it
used to called in amateur circles and to this day still called in
maritime circles) was that you could feel a type of merging of being
with the operator, that you could feel through those pecularities that
you speak of, some type of understanding beyond the words that were
tapped.  Whether or not this was imagined or real to my knowledge has
never been tested but I suspect it is sometimes true and sometimes
false, but this effect was frequently noticed by WT operators.  I've
never heard mention of this in wired telegraphy.

ZL1AN also published a piece on hand sending.  I'll try to find it.

73

DR

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 12:46 PM, K0HB <kzerohb at gmail.com> wrote:
> That's a very nice piece, David, but I have to take issue with this
> sentence.
>
>> The words appear right inside  my head, words that were never
>> spoken; uncorrupted by  accents, verbal peculiarities, oddities
>> of vocal intonation.
>
> Good Morse.....
>
> (not the popular robotic-sterile machine produced morse but real
> hand-produced Morse sent by a skilled radioman)
>
> ..... >>DOES<< contain "accents, peculiarities, and intonation".
>
> That's not called "corruption", it's called "communications enhancement".
>
> 73, de Hans, K0HB
> Most Reverend Keeper of the Codes of Q
>
>
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