[Elecraft] 20 wpm OT

[Phil Kane]

On Sat, 7 Jul 2007 08:07:00 EDT, N2EY at aol.com wrote:

>The Examiner pointed to a chair at the Morse Code table for me.
>He then unlocked one of the file cabinets and brought out the
>code test machine, 'phones, and straight key, and set them up on
>the table.

>The code machine was a small unit that read holes in a specially
>punched paper tape. Speed was changed by swapping drive spindles
>of different diameters.

  That was one of the "new" ones at the time.  The SF office used
  the big old Bohme machine - the one with the variable speed and
  the dial indicating the speed - well into the mid-70s. We used
  the little ones only for the distant-city exams.

  They were all replaced by tape recordings in the late 70s, when
  the sending tests for hams were abolished, making it easier for
  non-code-qualified examiners to give the code tests rather than
  detail an engineer or technician to do that.

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