[CW] Help Wanted: CW Operators

Sun Apr 28 14:28:18 EDT 2019

The bio on qrz has more, but even more is at http://qsl.net/n1ea and my
Morse Archive http://tinyurl.com/djringjr there is more on Prinsendam
rescue including the XXX and SOS broadcasts.  I sent three DDD SOS DDD
broadcasts that night, no recordings of that unfortunately.

73

DR

On Sun, Apr 28, 2019 at 2:24 PM Bill Cromwell <wrcromwell at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> >
> >     Amateur Extra WD8DAS
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