[Elecraft] CW Keying

[Kate Hutton]

For the last few years, some of the traffic handlers in California have been
running a trivia game, conducted via the NTS.  For a short while, "tough
copy" got taken to somewhat of an extreme.  Try "NAME THE ICELANDIC VOLCANO
WHOSE ASH CLOSED AIRPORTS IN EUROPE IN 2010."  Or "WHAT IS THE SCIENTIFIC
TERM FOR STOMACH RUMBLING QUERY."  Or "WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN AA AND
PAHOEHOE QUERY."

At some point we toned it down because we didn't want to scare anyone off!

73 Kate K6HTN

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 2:24 PM, Alan Bloom <n1al at sonic.net> wrote:

> Years ago, Chuck Bender W1WPR, chief operator at W1AW, was giving the
> Novice exam to young Jamie White, son of a couple HQ staffers.  He
> didn't want to make the 5 wpm CW test too easy for fear of being accused
> of going easy on the ARRL kid.  The text included:
>
> "McKeesport is situated at the confluence of the Youghiogheny and the
> Monongahela."
>
> I believe Jamie got 100%.
>
> Alan N1AL
>
>
> On Thu, 2011-06-30 at 15:32 -0500, Tony Estep wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Chuck Smallhouse <w7cs at theriver.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > ...ended up taking the CW test three times....
> >
> >
> > Ah, the CW test. I still remember the beginning of the text from my
> General
> > exam in 1958: "Turning westward, 300 aircraft blanketed the horizon..."
> >
> > Tony KT0NY
>
>
>
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