[CW] Signal Corps Morse Writing

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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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