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[Jan Robbins]

Can you folks not figure out what is (1) worth about and (2) on the 
topic of this list?  My God, what drivel! I'm sure glad the lists I deal 
with regularly--Icom,e.g.--are run by people who know NONSENSE when they 
see it.

David Ring wrote:
>
> 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 
> <mailto:n4xy at earthlink.net>> wrote:
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>     Yeah, if I hadn't mentioned the books, I'd have cut everything
>     below the text.
>
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