[Elecraft] paddle key training

[WILLIS COOKE]

Well Mr. Stewart, I happen to be the trustee for the ham station aboard the USS 
Stewart, DE-238 which is a museum ship on Pelican Island, Texas (City of 
Galveston).  If you ever get to this part of Texas we could arrange for a bit of 
operating time from the ship. It was named for Rear Admiral Charles Stewart, 
Captain of the USS Constitution during the War of 1812, maybe one of your 
ancestors.  The call on the ship is N5BPS which is a slight alteration of NBPS, 
the call of the USS Cavalla, SS244 which is the Submarine alongside the Stewart.
 Willis 'Cookie' Cooke 
K5EWJ 




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From: Wes Stewart <n7ws at yahoo.com>
To: Ken - K0PP <kengkopp at gmail.com>; Gary Gregory <garyvk4fd at gmail.com>
Cc: elecraft <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Fri, March 25, 2011 7:40:40 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] paddle key training

As a teenager, I knew an old gentlemen who had been a Western Union 
telegrapher.  He had a two-story house (unusual in Tucson) and the whole second 
floor was a replica of a WU station.  He wasn't a ham but had some TRF receivers 
that he'd built and one that I believe was US Navy surplus.

He gave me a Western Union "1-B Pole Changer Key" made by Bunnell, that I still 
use today.  If I want, I can wire it to send "inverted" CW.  (My fist is bad 
enough these days, it would hardly be noticeable)

Interesting tidbit, especially to a guy named Stewart: The first telegraph 
station in Arizona Territory (1871) was at Pipe Spring and the first operator 
was a 16 year old girl, named Ella Stewart.

http://www.nps.gov/pisp/planyourvisit/historical-figures.htm

Wes  N7WS

--- On Fri, 3/25/11, Gary Gregory <garyvk4fd at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Gary Gregory <garyvk4fd at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] paddle key training
> To: "Ken - K0PP" <kengkopp at gmail.com>
> Cc: "elecraft" <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
> Date: Friday, March 25, 2011, 5:52 PM
> *Ken..the FW will reverse it too.*
> *
> *
> *Gary
> *
> On 26 March 2011 09:49, Ken - K0PP <kengkopp at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> >
> > Thumb on right paddle makes dits.
> >
> > Have a left-handed guest op?  Suggest turning
> paddles
> > around backwards and reach over the top.  (:-))
> >
> > 73!
> > Ken Kopp - K0PP
> > ElecraftCovers at gmail.com

> 
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