[CW] Signal Corps Morse Writing

Sun Aug 1 13:47:37 EDT 2010

Hi David,
An HK is a (HUNTER-KILLER) AKA US ARMY Special Forces "A" Team
member. Light and heavy weapons, and demolitions and alternate CW operator.
At the time they were recruiting "The BEST and the Brightest", I thought it 
was great to serve
my country, it was and I don't regret anything I "HAD TO DO" while there.

As for the license I was in fact 15 years old sorry but your records are NOT 
correct
in that regard. I worked at WKBW and went to my last year of High School. At 
16
due to no fault of my own I was given an option, join the Armed Forces or 
spend two
years in Juvenile Hall, until I became 17, then one year in jail to make it 
to 18. I
chose ARMY. Some things you don't forget! My info is good and I KNOW Where I 
was and what
I was doing during that time.
Sorry, but your info is not correct in that regard.
Jim
WB2FCN

----- 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 12:19 PM
Subject: Re: [CW] Signal Corps Morse Writing

OK Jim, I'll bite if no one else would - what's an "HK"?  I thought
you were going to say that you were going to end up at RCA CW Station
Buffalo, NY WBL (North Tonawanda, NY) and man their 500 kHz station
for a while.

There is a good article on WBL here - the only one on the Internet in fact!

http://www.imradioha.org/WBL.htm

They have a picture taken in 2006 which shows at least one of the
towers still up - what a great site for field day!

73

David N1EA

On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 8:44 PM, James M. Walker <chejmw at buffalo.edu> wrote:
> 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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