[CW] Signal Corps Morse Writing

Sun Aug 1 12:38:48 EDT 2010

We took the General with Hallenstein ...  13 WPM .... just missed..... 
failed it ..
He grabbed all the papers away from everyone before they fill in any missing 
letters ...
IF could have filled in a few letters in words I am sure I would have passed 
it ...

Took the Extra years later .... Halenstein was gone by then ...  there were 
few tears in the amateur community ..   Hi ..

Whitey K1VV

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "D.J.J. Ring, Jr." <n1ea at arrl.net>
To: "CW Reflector" <cw at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2010 11:58 AM
Subject: Re: [CW] Signal Corps Morse Writing

Hi Whitey!  You were tested at Boston with Nate Hallenstein and he let
you send the 20 wpm with a bug? He knew better - the 20 wpm was
supposed to be copied by hand using a pencil or pen and sent by hand
using a straight key!

If I knew I could have gone to the FCC with you and sent with a bug, I
would have chanced it!

There was an exemption to this for the 1st class commercial test - 25
wpm you were allowed to send with a semi-automatic key and copy with a
typewriter.  I needed that exemption because I just could NOT write 25
wpm English with a pencil nor send it with a hand key.  My hand key
speed stays at 23 wpm maximum to this day!

73

David N1EA

On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 6:19 PM, cod947 <k1vv at comcast.net> wrote:
> Dave ...
>
> I took the 20 WPM Extra with a pencil ... no special way to write it down
> ...
> Took the sending test with one of those Skillman bugs from Lafayette Radio
> ...
>
> Passed 18 WPM in the US Army Intermediate Speed Radio School at Ft DIX NJ
> .. 1956...
> no special instruction there on how to write it down ... it was all 5 
> letter
> word groups ....pencil and paper ..
>
> Whitey K1VV
>
> ----- 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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