[CW] Amazing Story about Morse Op

[Benny Owens]

YUP IT WAS.   I WOULD NOT HAVE BELIEVED THE STORY IF I HAD NOT SEEN IT.

On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 3:50 AM, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. <n1ea at arrl.net> wrote:
> I'll bite:
>
> Why was your jaw on the table?
>
> 73
>
> DR
>
> On Dec 17, 2017 8:38 PM, "Benny Owens" <k5kvm5 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I WAS A VE FOR A GENERAL CLASS 13 WPM EXAM BACK IN THE DAY.   ONE
>> APPLICANT WAS WHEEL CHAIR BOUND AND COULD NOT MOVE ANY PART OF HIS
>> BODY BELOW HIS NECK.   AFTER DISCUSSION WITH HIM HE WANTED TO TRY
>> DOING THE TEST AND HE WOULD YELL OUT THE LETTER OR NUMBER IN BETWEEN
>> THE CW.   THE VE TEAM WAS WRITING DOWN WHAT HE YELLED OUT AS THE CODE
>> TEST PROGRESSED.   IT WAS HARD TO WRITE WITH YOUR JAW ON THE TABLE.
>> HE ALMOST ACED THE TEST AND PASSED ON SOLID COPY FOR ONE MINUTE.
>> TRULY AMAZING.
>>
>> 73
>> BENNY K5KV
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 1:42 PM, Bill Cromwell <wrcromwell at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Hi Dave,
>> >
>> > Where there is a will there is a way. A number of years ago I got into a
>> > CW
>> > QSO on forty meters with a fellow in Pennsylvania. It was a real live
>> > "rag-chew". About forty five minutes into the QSO he casually mentioned
>> > that
>> > he is totally deaf! Then he described the device he uses and how he made
>> > it
>> > from a salvaged speaker cone. He 'felt' the morse with a fingertip. We
>> > were
>> > probably sailing along near 20 WPM.
>> >
>> > He was not as severely disabled as the fellow you described but at the
>> > time
>> > so many wannabe hams were whining about not being able to hear the tones
>> > very well. That didn't stop either of these guys:)
>> >
>> > 73,
>> >
>> > Bill  KU8H
>> >
>> >
>> > On 12/17/2017 02:25 PM, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Hijacked shamelessly from FISTSCW @ yahoogroups reflector
>> >>
>> >> Sorry to hi-jack this subject a bit but it reminded me of a member of
>> >> our local club who was taught by our members to pass the (then) RAE.
>> >> He was severely disabled including being profoundly deaf and unable to
>> >> speak. It was discovered that he could discern vibrations via bone
>> >> conduction, he learnt morse code and communicated using that. He had a
>> >> computer which translated the morse which he sent with an iambic
>> >> paddle for those who did not copy morse. His name was Mark Brownfield
>> >> and his callsign was G0EMZ. He was wheelchair bound and unfortunately
>> >> he died very young. I have the obituary from the local newspaper which
>> >> tells much of his story. I also have an excellent photograph of Mark
>> >> operating his paddle.  Mark used a Ten-Tec Century to a KW trapped
>> >> dipole plus a vertical for 10 metres with radials all assembled by
>> >> West Kent ARS - he lived in the local Cheshire Home. He was a member
>> >> of WKARS, RSGB and RAIBC. He studied for the RAE  using morse code
>> >> only. He sat and passed both parts of the exam at the first attempt
>> >> also using morse code, possibly the only person ever do that. I worked
>> >> him on numerous occasions on the WKARS CW net which was a regular
>> >> Sunday morning activity on 10 metres. Although severely physically
>> >> disabled there was nothing wrong with his brain and he was able to
>> >> fully participate in the nets.
>> >>
>> >> 73 de Dave G4OTV
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