[CW] New RadioTelegraph Operator License

[D.J.J. Ring, Jr.]

Flight radio officer endorsement included 25 WPM English 20 gpm cipher
groups.

30 wpm on a hand key is nearly impossible for most.  I struggle at 23 that
is why I sweated the 25 wpm test.

73

David
On May 22, 2013 4:02 AM, "Richard Knoppow" <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "D.J.J. Ring, Jr." <n1ea at arrl.net>
> To: "CW Reflector" <cw at mailman.qth.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 11:42 PM
> Subject: Re: [CW] New RadioTelegraph Operator License
>
>
>  They also test English at 20 wpm and code groups at 16 wpm, one full
>> minute
>> without error out of five minutes sent.
>>
>> I had FCC Engineer-in-Charge make me send 25 wpm on the hand key as
>> required but he kept me sending for nearly the full five minutes.  Years
>> later I found out he did not know Morse.  Boy did he make me sweat.
>>
>> 73
>>
>> David N1EA
>>
>
>     Its interesting to compare this to the requirements listed in _The
> Radio Manual_ 2nd edition (1929)   by Sterling and Kruse.
> The Radio Commission (pre-FCC) had several classes of commercial licenses.
> The highest, called the Commercial Extra First Class required the candidate
> to send and receive 30 WPM  in Continental Morse and 25 WPM in American
> Morse in   five letter code groups.  The First Class license required 25
> WPM plain language  and 20 WPM code groups in Continental Morse.
>     There was also a Second Class ticket with 16 WPM groups and 20 WPM
> plain language.
>     The First Class and Extra First Class were based mostly on operating
> experience and employment and had the same written examination as the
> Second Class license.
>     These licenses evidently also allowed the holder to operate broadcast
> transmitters although there was a separate class of broadcast licenses, the
> higher level ones still requiring code tests.  The highest level amateur
> license had the same code requirement as the Second Class Telegraph license.
>     In the biographical material on Ted MacElroy he says that he learned
> American Morse first and worked for Western Union for quite some time
> before getting a job with RCA Communications where he had to learn
> Continental Morse. The Radiomarine stations he used both because the order
> wires used American Morse while Continental code was used on the air.  I
> suppose if you use this stuff all day every day to make a living you get
> good at it.
>     BTW, I don't have anything with the requirements for an aeronautical
> endorsement in it at hand but my memory was the code speed was 35 WPM.
>
>
> --
> Richard Knoppow
> Los Angeles
> WB6KBL
> dickburk at ix.netcom.com
>
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