[Elecraft] Another urban legend: (OT)

[Ron D'Eau Claire]

Egad, we were pampered in Los Angeles in mid 1950's when I was sitting for
Amateur, then the Commercial Radiotelegraph license tests. 

We had real HEADPHONES!!  Imagine! Old magnetic "cans" that hurt the ears.
Felt just like "home" <G>. I can still remember sitting for the Novice test
as a 13-year old in that room in awe of my surroundings - Solid wooden
tables with a shelf for the phones and a straight key screwed to the table
in front of each position. All wood paneling in the room the with a row of
ceramic insulators holding an open-wire feedline running up one wall and
across the ceiling to pair of large feed-through insulators mounted in the
skylight glass. The engineer's "in-out" board were a series of wooden slats
on slides, with their names written in Morse. 

Ron AC7AC

-----Original Message-----

 I sat for my First Phone exam at Syracuse, NY, and the room was typical of
older government facilities: high ceilings, hard floor covering, etc. Echo
City!...So echoes and all, I found that I could still copy pretty solid at
25 wpm - that was back in 1953!  And I still can . . .

73, George W5YR
w5yr@att.net
http://www.w5yr.com