[CW] Morse Code Podcasts

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

No, he had a three letter N5 call, an amazing operator.  I think he used a
keyboard, I would have taken his claims as boasting but Don de Neuf, WA1SPM
and Dalt Bergstedt, W6AUH were both there on frequency.  I was really
blessed to have worked them.  SOWP used to have a net on the same frequency
an hour earlier, the frequency was just above 14,100 where few people
operated, perfect for a CW net hideout.  W1HRQ was the SOWP net control,
Hank from Maine.  He had two 120 foot towers supporting a 120 foot dipole
fed with open wire line.  Often people complain that they "just have a
dipole" but they don't know how good an antenna a dipole is until they
spend the time and money to install it like they would a beam antenna.
 WCC Chatham Radio just used doublets for transmitting.  Each band had a
separate doublet, each transmitter had a separate doublet.  Dipoles work
very well at 120 feet in the air overlooking the Atlantic Ocean on the
coast of Maine!  W1HRQ Hank attracted some attention because he put a 1 mf
capacitor across the keyline in his Yaesu FT-101 and produced a bell shaped
ringing note which sounded like old primary transformer keying in days of
old.

73
DR

On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 8:20 AM <PSmith at vinu.edu> wrote:

> Could the N5 be N5RP. Bob was active there and a very good high speed op.
>
> Phil, AA9ZZ
>
>
> Sent from my mobile device.
>
> Phillip Smith, CRMC
> Broadcast Faculty, Retired
> Vincennes University
>
> .- .- - - - - . --.. --..
> Amateur Radio AA9ZZ
> 7.056.5 MHz
>
> "You see, wire telegraph is kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his
> tail
> in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand
> this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they
> receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."
>
> Albert Einstein
>
>
> On Oct 29, 2018, at 6:57 AM, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. <n1ea at arrl.net> wrote:
>
> During the 1980s there was a Press Wireless (PREWI) group that met on
> 14,115 kHz near where the SOWP net was held. Don de Neuf, WA1SPM, Dalt
> Bergstedt, W6AUH and a N5??? who sent with a keyboard - but who was one of
> Press Wireless highest speed operators - met daily. I used
> to enjoy speaking to them. I can't remember the N5??? - if anyone does,
> let me know.
>
> 73
>
> DR
>
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