[CW] New Club for Morse Code Enthusiasts

[DANNY DOUGLAS]

Out of all the foreign commerical operators I ever copied, the Egyptians 
seems to be the best of the best.  Some in the countries around them were 
the worst of the worst, and never did figure out why that was.  Many of them 
were trained under the British, in days of old (prior to WWII).  I jammed a 
few fingers back then too.
Danny Douglas
N7DC
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All 2 years or more (except Novice). Short stints at:  DA/PA/SU/HZ/7X/DU
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Ring" <djringjr at gmail.com>
To: "CW Reflector" <cw at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, January 02, 2010 5:49 PM
Subject: Re: [CW] New Club for Morse Code Enthusiasts


Thank you, Hans for this information.  Jim is a talented CW operator
and I'm sure he has with him the best of the best.  I hope that their
endeavor is blessed with success.

It would be nice to have a world-wide organization of CW operators
which might entail other activities than on-the-air ones.  I always
enjoy meeting CW operators in person.  I've met some of the best over
the years:  W1BB, W1PL, DL6TQ, KH6IJ, KV4AA, W1DDB, - I believe I've
met hams on all continent except Africa in their own country.  I did
meet CW operators in Africa - but they were coast station operators.

There was one fellow who worked for Suez Radio in Egypt - he carried
his bug in a violin case it seems.  Machine gun Mike they called him.
Sounded like a teletype machine - but it was Morse - got your fingers
working on the typewriter when he blasted messages.  Nice guy, drank
those tiny strong cups of coffee - maybe that was the secret to CW
that would wake any ship operator into full wakefulness. Personally I
always swore like the bo's'n did when my typewriter jammed up when I
hit three keys at the same time trying to copy his fast Morse.

73

DR

On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 5:21 PM, K0HB <kzerohb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> A new club has been formed among Amateur Radio operators who are Morse 
> Code
> (CW) enthusiasts. It is called The CW Operators' Club (CWops). CWops
> encourages the use of CW in Amateur communications, and it promotes 
> goodwill
> among Amateurs around the world by planned CW activities.
> CWops is international in scope, membership and management. Its focus is
> the use of CW, whether for contesting, DXing or ragchewing. Moreover, it
> promotes every form of sending -- if it's CW, CWops supports it!
> For further information, go to www.cwops.org. There you will find
> everything that you might want to know about CWops, including our bylaws 
> and
> articles of incorporation, our planned activities, an explanation of how 
> to
> become a member, and a list of current members.
>
> Jim Talens, N3JT
> Secretary, CWops
>
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