[CW] Help Wanted: CW Operators

[Bill Cromwell]

Hi David,

I looked you up on QRZ and I see you are still there in MA. I didn't 
look for the town (yet) but I have a daughter living in the North Shore 
area. Even before she grew up and moved there I have visited there and 
played with the North Shore hams. Once I was at their Field Day.

I noticed your QSL card image. The vessel shown there is on fire! Nasty 
business. Maybe they needed assistance called in by their radio op :) 
expereinced two fires at sea during my service in the Navy. We 
extinguished both in a matter of seconds. Sometimes that is not possible.

73,

Bill  KU8H

On 4/28/19 1:33 PM, D.J.J. Ring, Jr. wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> 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:
> 
> 
>     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.
> 
> 
>     Steve
> 
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