[CW] Signal Corps Morse Writing

Sun Aug 1 10:59:06 EDT 2010

No,
but a really interesting thing is I got that before I got my Amateur radio license.
I went to Hutch Tech High-School here. I wanted to work at the Radio station
because I listened to it, mostly at night, Joey Reynolds, when he was new here.
I was a member of the "Royal Order of the Night People" Member number 2.
I got hired by Jim Moran (SK) and I could only work 5 hours at that time (Law).
He was really impressed when I showed him my license, he came home with me
met my folks and asked if it was OK! Then he would drop me off after our shifts were over
because it was DARK and no Buses were running. I had a great time and
also learned a LOT from him.

The joke there was, someone would yell "HEY JIM, Come here!, and we would
yell back "Which One?"

Now I'm getting OLD and slowing down on activities like climbing towers and such.
Next I'll take to chasing women and drinking.
Jim
WB2FCN

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Henry Mei'l's 
  To: CW Reflector 
  Sent: Saturday, July 31, 2010 11:59 PM
  Subject: Re: [CW] Signal Corps Morse Writing

  Jim
  Gee, did they have radar and CW at WKBW ? ;0)
  Watts HK and Witch-Doctor ?
  Henry, Cph.
    ----- 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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