[CW] Johnny Cash - CW op

[Danny Douglas]

I suspect that there is a high percentage of ditty-boppers, as intercept ops
are called, in the ranks of ham radio.  I know several of em - some of whom
I personally gave the Novice test . The two highest scoring operators in my
army intercept class, after basic training ,were hams - we had 120 in the
class.  The top three of us got our choice of assignment.  The other guy
beat me out by one pont, even though I copied faster than he did.  He got me
on antenna theory, or something like that.

I hadnt known about Johnny Cash, but in a way it figures.  I hve often been
told that the rthym of copying code helps in music, or is that the other way
around?  I dont know, since I am tone dumb.

Danny Douglas
N7DC
ex WN5QMX ET2US WA5UKR ET3USA
SV0WPP VS6DD N7DC/YV5 G5CTB
All 2 years or more (except Novice)
Pls QSL direct, buro, or LOTW preferred,
I Do not use, but as a courtesy do upload to eQSL for
those who do.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "D. Chester" <k4kyv at charter.net>
To: <cw at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 1:45 PM
Subject: [CW] Johnny Cash - CW op


> Johnny Cash at Folsome Prison was featured on our local PBS station a
> couple of nights ago. I didn't catch the show, but a ham friend of mine
> pointed out that in an interview segment, Cash said that while he was
> stationed in Germany with the USAF, his job was High Speed Intercept
> Operator - he copied Russian CW at 35wpm! Even got a Presidential Citation
> for copying the signals from the first flight of one of the Russian jet
> bombers.
>
> He did not say anything about learning Russian so I assume that he did
> verbatim copying and someone else translated.
>
> Too bad Ronnie Milsap or Chet Atkins (or any number of other people in the
> business) never talked him into getting a ham ticket.
>
> Don k4kyv
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