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[David Ring]

Oops!  No I has to eat that delicious "Humble Pie with an extra serving of
sawdust on top, with the nice code liver oil sauce on top.  Yuk!

Danny, you did nothing wrong - it was someone else who did it!  But everyone
(including me) check to make sure - make it as natural men checking to see
if they're buttoned up, zipped up, and their shirt tails tucked in, or women
seeing if they haven't tucked their dress into their panty hose. :-)

So wadda did anyone think of my key?  No one likes it at all?

Ed, tell us how you like that book in the background?  I see it goes for
about $70.00 - but is there another book you'd recommend to go along with
it?  If it is good, it might be something that I should buy for my radio
class.

Right now, I ask for extra and optional tuition that covers:  A small code
practice oscillator (CPO), A NYE Viking key (and black sub base), and
connecting cable, ARRL Study Guide, percentage cost for the room rental.
 The code oscillator is from parts and made in class.  Parts are assembled
by hand, then I go around with a "third hand with alligator clips" and show
the individual students how to solder, then we solder.  They solder the big
resistors and caps, and I solder the IC socket and show them how I use a
small piece of bamboo (from chopstick or barbeque item) prevents solder
bridges.

Since this takes one evening, only those who wish to "watch" or have paid
the extra can participate.  The keys are given outwhen they've learned
enough of Morse to hear the rhythm and I've given them instruction.

In the Morse code class - halfway through the alphabet where the students
are taught how to use the straight key.  They must know the sound of good
code.  At this time I present those who have purchased one, their personal
key.

Those who just don't get it, I make sure they can send as well as they can
and use good posture before I give them a key or tell them to start sending
so that they form their sending habits in a good way.

I'd like to include an inexpensive (but not cheap) digital volt-ohm meter, a
inexpensive Weller thermostatically controlled solder iron (very inexpensive
now), small hand tools - small diagonal cutter, needle-nose pliars, stub
nose pliars, hemostat (hink sink and holding device), small amount of
desolder braid, and solder (large and small types) about 1 foot of each. It
would really get them started in ham radio by giving them the right tools
right away, but I have no justification for it other than the CPO kit and
with buying a key, the cost of the course is probably high enough.  I used
to make it an option, but everyone wanted one.

I can see right now that the addition to the course with that book would
make it around $150. - and you know how cheap hams are (they all complain -
mostly the licensed ones! - but strangely they never comment about the
instructor who teaches for free or makes just enough money on supplies to
cover his financial costs (not his added labor).

Anyway, how do you like that course?  Do you recommend it to those CW
operators on this list?

73

DR

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Ed Tanton <n4xy at earthlink.net> wrote:

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