[CW] Sending Better Morse!

Sun Feb 20 12:42:52 EST 2022

Spud,

Do you or do you know anyone who can RECREATE some ground-air and/or
air-ground WT CW traffic for history?

73

DR

On Sun, Feb 20, 2022 at 8:57 AM spud roscoe <spudrve1bc at outlook.com> wrote:

> Damn it Dave you are making me homesick. The flying operator was very fast
> as well. Reay Bridger was in charge of VFU Shediac for awhile back in the
> thirties and told me he was afraid he might have to sit in for one of the
> operators, and knew he could not copy that fast code.
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> Another thing the Italian aircraft on the Atlantic had beautiful
> registrations and of course call signs; I-LOVE, I-LUCY, I-LADY and so on.
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> 73
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> Spud VE1BC
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> Sent from Mail <https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for
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> *From: *D.J.J. Ring, Jr. <n1ea at arrl.net>
> *Sent: *February 20, 2022 7:18 AM
> *To: *CW Reflector <cw at mailman.qth.net>
> *Subject: *Re: [CW] Sending Better Morse!
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> I agree with you, Hans, and both of those guys sent very well.  I guess I
> should have added that it's like music, the musician tries to play as
> perfectly as possible, but instead of becoming sterile, too perfect music,
> when he lets go of his trying and just "does it", it becomes "soulful" and
> the slight imperfections become a type of beauty all it's own.
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> That being said, I still love the old telegraphy sound of the Great Lakes,
> and that of the old and now dead, South American flight radio officers who
> let their dots be sent at nearly double the speed of their dashes - but
> they had accurate dots in number, just machine gun fast.
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> If I had a choice of copying a long WX broadcast from a machine or from a
> good operator, I'd always go with the good operator, and my favorite keys
> to copy were the sideswiper (double speed key) or the Vibroplex - a well
> sent Vibroplex was a joy to copy - and I'd not copy the machine sent WX
> broadcast.  Also machine sent broadcast at 27 WPM was easier to copy than a
> boring one (same content) at 16 WPM.  Been there, done that.
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> 73
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> DR
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> N1EA
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> On Sat, Feb 19, 2022 at 9:34 PM Hans Brakob <kzerohb at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hopefully I won’t get excommunicated or circumcised for this, but I LIKE a
> fist that’s personalized a bit.  Think KH6IJ or W4KFC in old time SS drills.
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> Sterile machine-grade morse is for machines to copy.
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> *73, de Hans, KØHB*
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> “Just a Boy and his Radio”™
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> *From: *Bill Lanahan <wa2nfn at gmail.com>
> *Sent: *Saturday, February 19, 2022 21:56
> *To: *CW Reflector <cw at mailman.qth.net>
> *Subject: *Re: [CW] Sending Better Morse!
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> Today you’d have a lot more room in your sea bag if you just loaded the
> Precision CW Fistcheck app, by our own DJ7HS. You could hear, see, and get
> timing stats for every dit/dah/space and then play back an exact copy of
> your sending to hear what other guy heard (or would have to suffer
> through).
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> BTW what’s a black and white TV lol.
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> If new technology like Fistcheck can get me sending half as good as your
> fist, I’ll be delighted.
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> 73 wa2nfn
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> Sent from my iPhone
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> On Feb 19, 2022, at 3:33 PM, David J. J. Ring, Jr. <n1ea at arrl.net> wrote:
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> Pardon me if I share some of my delusional past with you.
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> Since I was in all the good Morse code amateur clubs, I mistakenly thought
> I sent excellent Morse code.
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> It was good but not excellent, the operators at WCC, WSL (known for it's
> excellent Vibroplex operators - you will hear them on this recording:
> https://archive.org/details/LastEastboundTrans-atlanticVoyageOfqueenMarygbtt)
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> I had gotten a DGM SRT 2000 keyboard after JE (Jan Edwards, W5EV (SK)
> recommended it, and I put in a CP Clare mercury wetted 50 VA relay in it so
> I could key the 200 mA keying circuits on the ships. (photo attached).
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> However, in the 1990s I came into possession of a beautiful used SRT-2000
> which was a "Send-Receive-Terminal" made by DGM Electronics (Dennis
> Makovec, WA9CIY) which had a capabilities of sending and receiving Morse,
> Baudot, and ASCII.  Of course, I took it to sea along with a small 5 inch
> black and white television set and an RF video modulator for to convert the
> SRT-2000 video output to a TV signal on Channel 3 or 4, and I was all set
> to work RTTY as N1EA/MM.
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> But that wasn't much fun, but it WAS different.  Probably not as confusing
> as using the ship's PHILLIPS STB-750A SITOR terminal to work AMTOR on the
> amateur bands and when someone accidentally sent Control D (for WRU - Who
> are you) and they received 10897 WAKL X which was the ship's Automatic
> Answer Back, but I digress.
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> I also decided to use this as a code learning tool - even after sending
> and receiving Morse both as an amateur and commercial radiotelegrapher, and
> I was surprised that when I sent CQ it came out as NN TTET or NN MA or
> other variations.
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> At first I thought it was the "darned SRT-2000" is a piece of junk but
> knowing the very high standards of quality - Miliitary Specifications - of
> this keyboard, I decided to "listen intently to hear MY deficiencies" - and
> swallowing the lump of pride in my throat, I finally started hearing the
> letters C as being sent NN or Q as MA, and I tried to improve my
> coordination, soon the DGM was decoding my bug as CQ.
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> That's what I tried for - to have computer readable semi-automatic sent
> Morse! I have to say that I've received many compliments even from those
> whom I considered the best Vibroplex senders I had ever heard, and no doubt
> it was due to my using the code reader in the DGM SRT 2000 to nudge me into
> sending better.
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> So while it was embarrassingly unpleasant to the point of my defiant
> refusal to admit my less than perfect sending was responsible for the
> errors I saw on the screen, when I admitted it was my timing that was the
> problem, and set out to change my timing and send perfect enough to have
> the code reader copy what I was sending, eventually with the outpouring of
> compliments, the pain of embarrassment stopped and my resolution to correct
> the timing errors in MY sending was rewarded with better - perhaps near
> perfect - sending, which was what I always wanted to do. It was a humbling
> experience though.
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> One of the things I taught myself was to ALWAYS correctly correct an error
> - because it's good operating procedure -  but also because it's more work
> which makes ME pay attention to the quality of my sending.
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> If I sent this: "I SENT LIKE TSIS" (Here I send 8 dots - the error signal)
> and repeat from the last correctly sent word, "I SENT LIKE THIS" (and
> continued onward!)
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> 73
> DR
> N1EA
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