[CW] Help Wanted: CW Operators

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Never heard otherwise.  I was always told to put two space periods between words.  One between letter/numbers.  When one learns to use a MILL to copy, it becomes just a normal thing to do.  I learned fast speed copy, on a MILL.  In fact, pretty much all speeds.  I cannot remember a word, and stick another behind it, because I have already forgotten the first word.  With a pencil, in hamming,  I get something like the important words, down on paper.  Names, locations, reports, , etc.  But in commercial/government copy, you need it all, so a MILL or typewriter was the way to go.  Today even, I will just click in one of my "new folder" icons on the screen and bring up a blank screen, and start copying away on the keyboard.  Frankly, not as good a keyboard as the old

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> On April 28, 2019 at 1:33 PM "D.J.J. Ring, Jr." <n1ea at arrl.net> wrote:
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>     I got involved in Eastern Mass Net back in 1965, they ran a slow speed net in the Novice band (3700-3750 kc/s).  I found them very welcoming.
>     When I came home from sea in 1980, I joined again, and they were so impressed by my traffic handling, two of the net managers drove to my home to visit.
>     One was a sea captain the other was the net manager. I guess they liked my hand key sending.  I learned that I can't play hot shot on a hand key, all I can do is try to send well, if I want to expose my pride, so I sent well.  They liked my sending, and I had worked on it, imitating "DE W1AW" on my tape recording of the W1AW bulletins I had recorded.
> 
>     Of course, being a professional Morse operator in 1980, I wasn't going to take any put downs from any of the members, but I don't remember any to be honest.
> 
>     But if they're were, I'd just ignore them, unless the person was equal or better than I was and then I'd listen, I can always learn, and some of our sending habits are so old we don't hear them. I could learn to run wordstogether.  Someone at a commercial station told me to deliberately pause after each word - like a double space.  I heard the old CW traffic handlers doing that as well as the better coast station operators.  So I did that.
> 
>     I visualized a NEWS TICKER like was on the Empire State building, news would be written in light bulbs from right to left, then "falling off" the end of the display.  At every word, I'd add extra space, and my sending improved - I learned the phrase:
> 
>     SEND THE SPACES!
> 
> 
>     73
>     David N1EA
> 
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>     On Sun, Apr 28, 2019 at 12:16 PM Steve WD8DAS via CW < cw at mailman.qth.net mailto:cw at mailman.qth.net > wrote:
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> >         Amateur traffic handling has been of interest to me at several points in my ham career.  But each time I got interested, unfortunately I was pushed away by various negative attitudes of those already involved.  I hope this has changed now so that newcomers are welcomed.
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