[CW] Signal Corps Morse Writing

Sun Aug 1 14:10:23 EDT 2010

Hello Jim,

I just said that the 1st class radiotelegraph license had an age requirement
of 21 years of age, the 2nd class radiotelegraph had an age requirement of
18 years of age.

Henry and I are teasing you about the Buffalo radio station using CW and
RADAR because you put down radiotelegraph and we're both guessing that you
meant to put down radiotelephone, right?  You needed a PHONE license for AM
station right, not the TELEGRAPH license, right?  The radiotelegraph license
was not good for broadcast stations except for the 10 watt variety of FM
stations that the FCC came out with later.

I do that too, after a while I can't even find my typographical errors - the
errors look correct and I keep reading them as I intended to write them!

Thanks for your service to our country - I'm proud that a #1 CW operator
made US Army Special Forces "A" Team.

All the good guys were CW operators - including Johnny Cash!

73

DR

On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 1:47 PM, James M. Walker <chejmw at buffalo.edu> wrote:

> 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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