[Elecraft] Farnsworth Method

[Ron D'Eau Claire]

Ha, ha!!! I bet those tube tables helped you pass, Bob! 

My favorite practice to maintain a decent fist on my bug is to send a page
out of the phone book in TEST mode: addresses, phone numbers and all. 

If I can make a whole page without a flub, I'm happy. 

If I can play back what I sent and find it easy copy, I'm even happier, Hi! 

I'm glad to know not all of us dinosaurs are extinct. 

Ron AC7AC

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Tellefsen [mailto:n6wg at comcast.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2008 9:35 AM
To: Ron D'Eau Claire; elecraft at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Farnsworth Method


Hi Ron
Looks like we are of the same vintage.
I was a 1952 Novice too.

I remember working every day on my code, sturggling up to 13 wpm. The night
before I took the bus into Seattle for the General test, I had a buddy send
me some code practice for a final tune up.

So, he launched into this string of stuff that made no sense to me at all.
I had to ask him, what was he sending?  Turns out he was sending the index
to the tube tables in the back of the handbook! :-) Really had me going 'til
I understood what was coming at me.

Great days those were.
73, Bob N6WG