[CW] Signal Corps Morse Writing

[Henry Mei'l's]

Jim, BTW
I thought you needed the FCC 1st or 2nd Radio Telephone to operate commercial broacast radio stations (guess you had ticket as well) - that's why I got my 1st around '59 (age 16). 
An AM station (1kW?) in Mt. Kisco, NY was considering hiring me -- but my walking right into their glass wall while they were on the air didn't make a good impression (except on the wall!). This was around 1960-61.
You couldn't tell where the door was, let alone whether it was opened or closed - the entire little round building was walled in glass. So I got a well deseved, "Don't...we'll call you." Also might be because I came to the interview in dungarees - sneaking suspicion that my cousins deliberately didn't give me time to change into decent clothes before driving me to the radio station, because they didn't want to lose me as a hand on their nearby farm. 
After that I demanded a raise and cash for hours worked. Maybe working for relatives is not a good idea.
Henry
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: James M. Walker 
  To: CW Reflector 
  Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2010 2:44 AM
  Subject: Re: [CW] Signal Corps Morse Writing


  Took my 1st Radiotelegraph at age 15, passed it with the Radar Endorsement, and went to work at WKBW 
  Radio, a year later I became an "HK" some folks will know what that means. "Witch-Doctor" knows and
  a few others, never got to be an R.O. Life throws curves that way!
  Jim
  WB2FCN

    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: D.J.J. Ring, Jr. 
    To: CW Reflector 
    Sent: Saturday, July 31, 2010 1:06 PM
    Subject: Re: [CW] Signal Corps Morse Writing


    When I was studying for my 1st class radiotelegraph Morse tests - 25 wpm English and 20 groups per minute of cipher groups, I learned Chancery cursive italic which was a bookhand used in the middle ages by monks who copied the Bible and other books hour after hour.  It was optimized for legibility and speed.

    http://jp29.org/itintro.htm

    I use a simplified version of the script shown here - with some modifications - I put a slash through the zero, and I put a foot on the figure one, and I simplify the capitals removing most of the flourishes - with the strange exception of the capitals of D and R which for some reason got used when I serviced a telegram, those letters being my sine.

    I also searched for the fastest ball pen, I found the Write Bros pen at the time was fastest.  The test I gave was to drag the pen ove paper without pressure and see if it would write.  The Sanford company makes the fastest roller balls these days - uniball, jetstream, vision.  Try one you'll love it.

    The research was worth it - I could NOT write 20 wpm clearly before and the examiner at the FCC told me that I had very good handwriting - and even more importantly, I passed the two Morse receiving tests.  Fortunately for me the FCC allowed me to do the 25 wpm English sending test with a Vibroplex bug.  I did the 20 gpm ciphers with a hand key - but they're much easier because they don't have groups of fast dots like ESE and so forth that are really hard to send fast!

    73

    DR

    David Ring, N1EA
    -30-


    On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Henry Mei'l's <meils at get2net.dk> wrote:

      Yes, theSG writing style is  fine for legibility -- but is it optimal if you have to copy at hi speed and don't have a mill at hand?

      73 Henry OZ1uF, Cph.



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