[Elecraft] Commercial CW ops (WAS: Bug Tamer)

[Bob Baxter]

On 1/31/06, Ron D'Eau Claire <rondec at easystreet.com> wrote:

>
> If a shore operator ran into someone who wanted to QRQ they obliged to the
> best of their ability. In my experience, ship operators aren't a lot
> different from Hams. Some were very competent and others less so.

The best op I ever worked, as a 19 year old USAAF cw op in a small
weather station in Greenland in 46-47, was an ex-Merchant Marine
radioman.  He worked for American Overseas Airlines, a government
contract company who furnished communications and base maintenance
people to the Army, and was stationed at BW1, the main base in
Greenland at the time.  I was sending him some traffic and he broke
and gave me a QRQ.  I moved the weight, on the Lightning, back about
half way and went as fast as I could--he never asked for a fill.  I
had a couple of 12 wpm hand key ops and he always slowed down to their
speed when he worked them without being asked.

Bob Baxter  AA7EQ
Walnut Ridge, Ar.