[Elecraft] Re: Bug Tamer

Rick Dettinger k7mw at cmc.net
Tue Jan 31 22:55:00 EST 2006


Ron  - Sometimes I think there must have been real compitions between
operators.  Maybe in the military.  No firsthand experience here.  I put in
for radio school in 1964 but they sent me to cook and baker school.  I
worked with a guy who had been on a ship.  He said that when someone
challanged him, he removed the weight completly.  He may have been braging.
I just read a chapter from the novel "The Nymph and the Lamp" by Thomas
Raddel.(sp?)  A shore station was challanged by a ship operator.  When the
dust settled, the best operators on both side had been called into the
contest.  This was full contact Morse code.  I just plunk along under 20wpm
but I enjoy the mechanical keys.  I like being in control of what I send.
Rick - K7MW




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